Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Top Ten Famous Quotes about Beauty

At the end of the day, plastic and cosmetic surgeries are about beauty. Consequently, a solid 85 percent of patients receiving cosmetic plastic surgery are women.

The remaining 15 percent are guys who don’t care about beauty. Being guys, they are more concerned about the times when beauty was in the eye of the beer holder.

Take a look at what some of our most clever thinkers and writers have envisioned about female beauty. (Verses about so-called “male beauty” are never written because their visions are always too bleary.)

10. “I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
-Jean Kerr

9. BEAUTY, n. “That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."
- Ambrose Bierce

8. “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
- Sophia Loren

7. "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I never saw true beauty until this night!”
- Romeo when he first sees Juliet

6. “Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."
- Phyllis Diller

5. “If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?"
- Lily Tomlin

4. "Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
- Dr. Lawrence J. Peter

3. “Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.”
- Kin Hubbard

2. “Never purchase beauty products in a hardware store."
- Miss Piggy

1.” She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.”
- Groucho Marx

1 comment:

Galina said...

Great list! I have a favourite by Groucho Marx: "Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."