"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty." ― Honore de Balzac Topic(s): Beauty Tags: children, loving More From Honore de Balzac "What is art? Nature concentrated." "Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity." "We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are." More In Beauty "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?"― Maria Montessori "Beauty is whatever gives joy."― Edna St. Vincent Millay "The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer."― Joan Collins