A Quote by Ovid

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

Ovid

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Ovid
Roman - Poet
43 BC - 17 AD

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

Ovid

A pleasing face is no small advantage.

Ovid

Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

Baltasar Gracian

The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.

Robert Dodsley

There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.

Glenn Curtiss

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Walter Scott

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

Le Corbusier

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

Washington Irving

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

Greg Laurie

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

Christian Louboutin

The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.

Ben Howard

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.

Louis Kahn

The digital camera takes photographs in practically no light: it will dig out the least bit of light available. I was amazed to see the results of photographs that I wouldn't take ordinarily. That's the advantage of digital photography.

William Klein

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Saint Augustine

A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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