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“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.”
Yogi Berra
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful”
John Constable
“Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?”
Rita Rudner
“Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ''ugly.'' His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.”
“He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.”
Ayn Rand
“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.”
Ed O'Neill
“I'm so ugly - I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get”
Rodney Dangerfield
“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy... ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”
Lester Beall