#p

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ↗

— Yves Saint-Laurent

#fashion #makeup #women #beauty

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#power #beauty

...a great man. But...not quite great enough. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#great-men #not-good-enough #the-sad-truth #unfortunate #men

These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies.” “Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#men

Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge. ↗

— Thomas M. Disch

#beauty

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#beauty

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #socrates #truth #wisdom #money

It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#experience #true-nature #experience

Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love #experience

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#free-enterprise #money #money