Quotes About Helen Of Troy's Beauty

#1. Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

Saadi

#2. First of all, there is no need to patronize me by implying that I'm Helen of Troy when it's clear that I'm no beauty.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'

Isadore Sharp

#4. Satire is tragedy plus time.

Lenny Bruce

#5. She got me to crack open the window to my soul, and I really don't want to slam it down on her fingers just yet.

Collette West

#6. The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.

Mark Epstein

#7. The sky, from one horizon to another, from east to west, from north to south, was utterly and completely black.

Douglas Adams

#8. I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

George R R Martin

#9. I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.

Jeff Foxworthy

#10. I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids.

Nick Hornby

#11. Aint nuttin' but a peanut.

Ronnie Coleman

#12. Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

Eliphas Levi

#13. What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

Janet Malcolm

#14. Remember how beautiful you were?" he whispered. It was a cruel thing to embed in a woman's compact, but he'd found a million uses for the thing. Made him feel like he was helping it redeem itself.

Clovia Shaw

#15. It is that peculiar soldiers' humor which springs from the experience of shared misery and often translates poorly to those not on the spot and enduring the same hardship.

Steven Pressfield

#16. Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.

Francis Of Assisi

#17. Pornography is anything that depicts lewdness in such a way as to create impure thoughts and lusts. However, the sewers continue to flow, destroying the moral fabric of our society.

Billy Graham

#18. Give your kids time to dream.

Judith Warner