Side Quotes - Page 2

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.

Charles de Montesquieu

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

Elizabeth Taylor

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean period. So you know I don't like myself.

Elizabeth Taylor

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years and that too with surprising strides.

I look forward to being older when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.

When you've got the personality you don't need the nudity.

Mae West

The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that the rest really comes from it.

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you so can the things it brought.

Paulina Porizkova

If you're considered a beauty it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

Just because you're beautiful they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

Carol Alt

I intimidate men.... People look a lot but there's no line outside my door.

People see you as an object not as a person and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing but actually it sets you apart.

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me but they don't.

When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

Jamie Lee Curtis

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood I don't think I'm pretty enough.

Christine Lahti

Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

It is not how old you are but how you are old.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

When you become 100 life changes completely.

Lady Willie Forbus

This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Dorothy Fuldheim

Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction-I've worked hard for them!

Time-our youth-it never really goes does it? It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmyer

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life.

Jacqueline Bisset

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Colleen McCullough

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite lose her waistline her bust-line her ability to bear a child even her sense of humor but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality her femininity.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Nikita Ivanovich Panin

How long can you be cute?

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas-that's what my grandma taught me.

Elizabeth Heller

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Joyce Carol Oates

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Jacqueline Briskin

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

John Oliver Hobbes

Not all speed is movement.

Toni Cade

Oh I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Bertrand Russell

Ambition having reached the summit longs to descend.

Pierre Corneille

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.

Priscilla Presley

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.

Shirley Temple Black

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.

Margaret Drabble

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