Thursday, May 7, 2009

Why do people say beauty is only skin deep?

When really, no one cares about anyone unless if they are beautiful...? I'm no a pretty person, In fact, I get asked whether I'm a boy or a girl sometimes. That's just the point though, if you aren't perfect looking, you get treated like the plague.





My question, why do people beat around the bush? "Beauty is only skin deep"... when someone says they want to be beautiful, they almost never mean they want a caring heart and kind soul, in fact, they NEVER mean that. So why beat around the bush? If your shallow, why not say so? Why actually act like you care?

Why do people say beauty is only skin deep?
As the very popular saying goes, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!” Many people have different views on what they consider to be beautiful which is why many people that I would view as unattractive are very beautiful in someone else’s eyes. The world today defines beauty based on outward appearances alone. You are not beautiful if you are not physically attractive. According to the world’s standards, beauty means being thin and tall. A clear complexion, shiny hair, straight teeth, radiant skin, and correct proportions are all elements of beauty. Unfortunately, numerous people cannot be all of these things and they are forced to believe that they are not beautiful in the eyes of others. Another saying that is very popular is, “Beauty is only skin deep.” I do not believe that this statement is true for the reason that with all the cosmetic surgery, technology and make-up that we have in the world today beauty is bought and not natural. Beauty can also be determined by a person’s personality and not necessarily by their looks because the way a person presents him or herself can make all the difference in the world. The most unattractive person can also display beautiful characteristics and it will conceal their appearance. Is beauty only conveyed in one particular color? No, African Americans are produced in many different shades, vanilla, caramel, mocha, coffee and chocolate. Black is in fact beautiful and there is no other race that can measure up to the beauty that is displayed by African Americans. In my opinion, people should not focus solely on the outside appearance because that can damage ones self-esteem. Parents should raise their children to appreciate the thoughts and actions of a person opposed to the looks of a person. Our priorities in American today are not at all in order but maybe one-day society will learn that beauty is not everything.
Reply:Some people are just plain hypocrites.


And don't listen to them, who are they to judge you on how you look. Screw them.
Reply:They are talking about physical beauty, people who act like that, IS only beautiful on the outside. True beauty goes all the way through. Beauty like you are talking about, shallow, self-centered, vein, is only skin deep. When their beauty fades, whats left.?
Reply:only ugly people say that.
Reply:People are shallow and hypocritical. The problem with words of wisdom such as "Beauty is only skin deep" is that they escape the comprehension of the normal person. For proof read the answer above.


The truly great movies or albums are SO frequently outsold by the "Another Romantic Comedy About Friends" and "I'm From the Streets %26amp; I Rap about $$$" type pieces of crap.


Enlightenment is not for the average Homo Sapien, they would trade it all away for comfort.


What does the saying, "Beauty is only skin deep" mean?

The cliche, "Beauty is only skin deep."





What does it mean?

What does the saying, "Beauty is only skin deep" mean?
Looks may open the door for you, personality will keep it open.
Reply:Beauty is not a true reflection of the value or worth of a person. How they act and treat others is more important than how they look
Reply:i think it means that beauty comes with in..how u act
Reply:You can't judge a book by its cover. Substance is within.





In other words, someone beautiful may treat you like crap and be worthless trash -- or not. Same for someone who is definitely not beautiful on the outside.
Reply:A person's skin will change with age, illness, weight gain, accident, etc. but the inside of a person won't change so that is what you need to look for in someone. Also, someone's looks does not reflect what kind of a person they are.
Reply:To me it means that to be beautiful may be convenient but it is not what is important about being a person.


Everyone has the same feelings.
Reply:it means that the chatecter of a person cannot be determined by his/her beauty. you can't juge people by their looks, coz looks can be pretty deceiving. anyone can beautyfy his/her self with makeup. but that makeup won't influence their charecter.





The beauty of a person is only skin deep. the mind lives still deep inside and cannot be defined by the physical beauty.
Reply:I am sure that you heard it said that appearance does not matter so much and that it only matters what is on the inside. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside, would never have to comb their hair or take a bath and then the whole world would smell worse than it already does." - Lemony Snicket


"Beauty is only skin deep." ~ Proverb. Possible origin


“Sight is a big part of our existence, but it shouldn't make us blind to other things.” - Moira Doolan on beauty and aesthetics.


Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis


“The gift which you possess ... is not an art, but, as I was just saying, an inspiration; there is a divinity moving you... For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed...” Socrates in Plato’s Ion.


“But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty--the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life--thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?” - Plato’s Symposium


“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.” - David Hume


"Beauty is skin deep but ugly goes all the way to the bones."


“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.” - Voltaire


“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?” - Jean Kerr


"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." – Countess of Blessington


"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness." ~ John Keats


"Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old." ~ Franz Kafka


"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind


A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.


She is a visitor who leaves behind


The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain."


~ Robert Nathan, "Beauty Is Ever to the Lonely Mind"


"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." ~ Merchant of Venice


"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder." ~ Al Bernstein


"Beauty is in the imagination of the beholder." ~ David Newell


"Beauty is the evidence of why we are here." ~ Adrian D. Canfield


"Beauty will save the world." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky


"BEAUTY: An aesthetic radiance that delights the soul; a quality much admired in women, landscapes and tropical fish, but curiously out of favor in art throughout the modern era." ~ Rick Bayan, The Cynic's Dictionary


"Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word in the world." ~ Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)


"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius


"Glance at the sun.


See the moon and the stars.


Gaze at the beauty of the earth's greenings.


Now,


Think." ~ Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)


"He who marries a beauty, marries trouble." ~ Anonymous


"She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful." ~ Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit


"I have a message to deliver to the cute people of the world... if you're cute, or maybe you're beautiful... there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS out there than you are!! So watch out." ~ Frank Zappa


" If a model pay food with a greenback this dollar is an important part of a balanced diet too." ~ Unknown Author


"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may." ~ Plato


"The moment one give close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." ~ Henry Miller


"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect." ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton


"Through light and joy is the world opened up, revealed for what it is: ineffable beauty, unending creation." ~ Henry Miller


"To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness." ~ Albert Einstein


"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail." ~ Navajo song


"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." ~ Chinese proverb


"Beauty, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband." ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


"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, Notebooks


"We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature." ~ Emerson, The Poet


"Beauty without expression tires." ~ Emerson, The Conduct of Life
Reply:Beauty is only skin deep





Meaning





Physical beauty is superficial.





Origin





Proverb. First found in a work by Sir Thomas Overbury's, 1613:





"All the carnall beauty of my wife, Is but skin deep."





What his wife thought isn't recorded. There is a fanciful work attributed to Overbury called A true and historical relation of the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1651. Perhaps she had him worried?





'Skin deep' is now also used to allude to anything superficial. An early use of this was also attributed to Overbury in 1613, in Ordinary Fencer Works, 1856:





"His wounds are seldome above skin-deep."
Reply:It sort of goes along with "Pretty is as pretty does." That is, if a pretty person does ugly things, then he or she is not really pretty. Likewise, if someone who is not particularly attractive does nice things, then those actions make the person attractive. I remember in 8th grade where we had 8 boys and 20 girls in the class. We heard that we were getting a new boy in class and all of us girls were hoping for someone really cute. When we first saw him, we were disappointed. However, when we saw how well he did playing basketball, our opinion changed and he became much more attractive and sought after.
Reply:"beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" will shakespeare in the merchant of venice.


beauty is restricted to only the outer covering ,the physical appearence of ant article or a human person also.


the inner matter is a different thing altogether the intellegence and the emotional quotients are different.


as they say blondes are dumb. they may be beautiful but dumb


The pronunciation and translation of "Skin Deep" in arabic?

i want to open i tattoo shop using the words Skin Deep, but id like to say and write the words or term in arabic

The pronunciation and translation of "Skin Deep" in arabic?
Ask:


http://www.freewebs.com/arabic-designand...
Reply:جلد عميق - Jeld Ameeq
Reply:If you mean "as deep as skin" it"s


بعمق الجلد


or


كعمق الجلد


Speech on "Is beauty only skin deep?"?

I am looking for a persuasive speech that has already been said by a reliable source on the topic "Beauty is only skin deep". Found any speeches similar to that?

Speech on "Is beauty only skin deep?"?
The trouble is that it is a saying that is an opinion, not a statement of fact, so finding a 'reliable source' would be difficult. You could try googling quotations sites and see what 'beauty' comes up with.
Reply:No speech on it but some info on the phrase can be found at:


http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59200...

agave

The French Connection or Skin Deep?

What's your pleasure?





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Conn...





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_Deep_(...

The French Connection or Skin Deep?
im not reading all that! but whatever not the french
Reply:i love getting skin deep it's so erotic. oh sorry you meant the films....
Reply:I definitely prefer fcuk.
Reply:i liked the french connection. haven't watched skin deep
Reply:actually i didn't know that.


Thanks
Reply:The French connection ,but will not be taking any drugs by the way ,it sure is a classic .x
Reply:skin deep
Reply:Zulu
Reply:Reading the synopsis of Skin Deep, I realise I've seen this film but it must have been so many years ago all I remember was the luminous condom scene.


Have seen French Connection on TV several times and enjoyed it.


So my pleasure is: French Connection
Reply:Custor of the West.
Reply:Both are good to me............good storey lines, bet you cannot make up your mind;-)


If i have tan skin deep set of dark brown eyes dark brown hair wt colour of lipstick should I wear plz help?

i HAVE TAN SKIN DEEP SET OF BROWN EYES AND BROWN HAIR FOR THE LIP COLOUR WT COLOUR SHOULD I WEAR SHOULD i WEAR MORE ON THE SIDE OR REDS AND MAROONS OR BROWNS. I HAVE NOTICED THOUGH WHEN I WEAR BROWNS EVERYTHING JUS WASHES OUT ON MY FACE DOESNT LOOK GOOD PLZ HELP I HAVE LISE WAITIER LIP PENCIL I LIKE THOSE. SEDONA LISE WAITIER PENCIL HOW IS THAT PLZ HELP I DONT KNOW WT COLOUR TO WEAR ON MY LIPS I CANT WEAR PINK DOESNT LOOK GOOD ON ME.

If i have tan skin deep set of dark brown eyes dark brown hair wt colour of lipstick should I wear plz help?
I agree pink wouldn't look good because it is more of a color for fair skin. Try just sticking with the neutrals. I think that you just need to find a better brand that displays your beautiful skin more. I would stick with the golds, and coppers but something that is soft and not glittery.
Reply:lip gloss,golden lipstick{channel} makes a nice one.... I like you are tanned,brown eyes with golden flakes in them...... just shimmering lip gloss looks good with a nice tan......{minimal make up}
Reply:I use mocha's you would be able to use browns with reds in it.


If beauty is only skin deep...?

and fat is only deep skin.... why aren't fat people attractive?

If beauty is only skin deep...?
because by nature, human, especially men are visual creature.





So when fat people gain weight, they start to lose their masculine/feminie shape/curves. This cause human to be turned off in most case.
Reply:I feel exactly same way. I absolutely hate it because now when women say they have curves, I automically get impression they're fat. Report It

Reply:who says fat people aren't attractive.


men like their women curvy.
Reply:we are attractive
Reply:some of them are. I am a little bit of a chubby chaser myself. I like my men all sizes.
Reply:what about people with 'thick skin'? are they prettier than others? (fat people can be attractive, I know lots of overweight people who really are nice to look at--its the sloppy people that gross me out.)
Reply:it is because of their facial features.
Reply:No one likes an elephant... curvy is ok but fatass isn't. No one is going to tell me that fat people like the way they look or that others like it either. Why are diets like a multi-billion dollar industry? I mean come on. No, stick thin isn't the best either but somewhere in between. And "beauty is only skin deep" pretty much was invented as an excuse to be mad at pretty girls who are bitches. That is true, like beauty only goes so far, but I don't know anyone who doesn't somehow value beauty.
Reply:Aww. I beg to differ. Some fat people are very attractive.





And the saying "beauty is only skin deep" refers to the fact that there is more to a person than beauty. Its whats on the inside that really matters. You may have a beautiful person in front of you whom would not give you the time of day because they don't like the way you look!, or dress, or whatever.





Wouldn't you rather make a friend of a person with qualities like caring, intelligence, good morals, conscientious, honest, trustworthy, than with a person that has none of those qualities but is a beauty!





Just to clarify, this is not to say that a person with beauty would not have all of those qualities too!