"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Beauty Tags: beauty, power More From Ambrose Bierce "Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age." "Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility." "The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up." More In Beauty "Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don’t see somebody’s brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing."― James Caan "If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."― Robert Brault "There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea."― Gustav Stickley