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If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
    —— Anonymous
    UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
    —— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
    You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.
    —— Elayne Boosler
    If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
    —— Beau Brummel
    People only see what they are prepared to see.
    —— Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
    —— Al Gore, U.S. Vice President
    To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
    —— Latin Proverb
    If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
    —— Abraham Lincoln
    A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
    —— James Lowell
    There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
    —— Antonio Machado
    There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
    —— Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom
    In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
    —— Christopher Morley
    The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
    —— P. J. O'Rourke
    You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
    —— Dolly Parton
    I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
    —— Gilda Radner
    Less and grayer hair.
    —— Cal Ripkin Jr., baseball player, describing how he has changed over the course of his consecutive games record
    Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving.
    —— Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
    Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
    —— George Santayana
    Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years?
    —— Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show
    A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
    —— Adlai Stevenson
    Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
    —— N. D. Stice
    All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
    —— J.R.R. Tolkein
    Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
    —— Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn
    I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
    —— Vincent Van Gogh
    One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
    —— Vincent Van Gogh
    A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
    —— Gore Vidal
    Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
    —— John Weitz, American Designer
    It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
    —— Mae West
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
    —— Oscar Wilde
    Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face.
    —— Anita Wise