Book II, line 113 (tr. James Michie)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“For the fame of riches and beauty is fickle and frail, while virtue is eternally excellent.”
Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of the mind is illustrious and immortal.
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter I; Variant translation:
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516–1547) English Earl
"The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty", line 1
“I have found the most beautiful side of the flowers in the fallen flowers.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Voces (1943)
“Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful”
Gregory Hill (1941–2000) American writer and founder of Discordianism
Source: Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
“Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.”
Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) English Elizabethan pamphleteer and poet
Source: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), lines 1588-1589.
Celia Thaxter (1835–1894) American writer
"Rockweeds" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 21 (March 1868), p. 269.
Context: The barren island dreams in flowers, while blow
The south winds, drawing haze o'er sea and land;
Yet the great heart of ocean, throbbing slow,
Makes the frail blossoms vibrate where they stand;And hints of heavier pulses soon to shake
Its mighty breast when summer is no more,
And devastating waves sweep on and break,
And clasp with girdle white the iron shore.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist
Lecture, "Seemliness" (Glasgow, 1902), as cited in: David Brett, C. R. Mackintosh: The Poetics of Workmanship, (2004), p. 56
