Youth and Beauty...

I'm youth; I'm joy; I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. - James M. Barrie

Twenty to twenty-five. These are the years! Don't be content with things as they are... Don't take ‘no' for an answer. Never submit to failure. Don't be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She is made to be wooed and won by youth. - Winston Churchill

I pray for no more youth to perish before its prime. - Aeschylus

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied. - Cicero

Through our great good fortune, in our youth, our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. - Christian Dior

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips, and supple knees - it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions - It is a freshness of the deep springs of life. - Samuel Ullman

Beauty is the gift of God. - Aristotle

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty - bare. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is not caused. It is. - Emily Dickinson

Oh how can beauty maister the most strong! - Edmund Spencer

The nose of Cleopatra - If it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed. - Blaise Pascal

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. - John Donne

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty. - Edmund Burke

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness it the proportion. - Francis Bacon

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - Margaret W. Hungerford

It is the beautiful bird that gets caged. - Chinese Proverb

Beauty provoketh thieves no sooner than gold. - Shakespeare

Desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. - Proverbs 13:19

Faint Heart never won Fair Lady. - William Camden