Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- John Adams
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
- Matthew Fox
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
- Pope John XXIII
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- Cesare Pavese
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
- Thomas Dekker
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
- Warren Beatty
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Maria Mitchell
My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
- Gwyneth Paltrow
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
- Golda Meir
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
- Joel Osteen
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
- Albert Camus
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
- Ernest Hemingway
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
- Prince Charles
I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.
- Liv Tyler
Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.
- Cindy Margolis
I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.
- Kirsten Dunst
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
- Loretta Young
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
- Traci Bingham
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- Knut Hamsun
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
- Angela Carter
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
- Dean Koontz
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
- Joan Collins
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
- Deepak Chopra
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
- Samuel Daniel
To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.
- Marc Jacobs
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
- Robert Mapplethorpe