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" I Want To Be Happy"
Posted by Word Camel on July 07, 2003
In Reply to: "If You Want to Be Happy" posted by ESC on July 07, 2003
: : : : Hi. I am writing am essay and need help with the phrase "beauty is only skin deep." can anyone help me? Thanx
: : : BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP - "What you don't see is hidden under the skin and it may be more important than physical beauty. The proverb has been traced back to 'A Wife' (c.1613) by Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)." From the Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
: : : Overbury wrote: "All the carnall beauty of my wife/ Is but skin-deep, but to two senses known." ".the English writing master John Davies of Hereford recorded essentially the proverb's modern form in 'A Select Second Husband' : 'Beauty is but skin-deepe.' The following century, Samuel Richardson echoed this sentiment in his novel 'Pamela' with 'Beauty is but.a mere skin-deep perfection.' True enough, but beauty is a perfection of an attractive kind, and not a few writers have disagreeded with the notion, 'Beauty is only skin deep.' In 'Advice to Young Men' , the Englishman William Cobbett - perhaps keeping in mind the sensibilities of his male audience - wrote: 'The less favored part of the sex say, that beauty is but skin deep';..but it is very agreeable, though, for all that.' A more rancorous response to critics of physical beauty gave rise to the nineteeth-century English saying, 'Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone.' And that same century, the philosopher Herbert Spencer literally turned the current proverb on itself to make it a clever rebuke in 'Personal Beauty' : 'The saying that beauty is but skin deep is a skin deep saying.'" From Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New; by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993).
: : : A companion saying is:
: : : BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER - "The first stirrings toward this proverb appear to have come from the English dramatist John Lyly, who wrote in 'Euphues in England' . 'As neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose,' and from William Shakespeare, who in 'Love's Labour's Lost' (c.1594) penned the line 'Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.' Almost a century and a half later, Benjamin Franklin in his 'Poor Richard's Almanack' of 1741 included the lines, 'Beauty, like supreme dominion/ Is but supported by opinion,' and Scottish philosopher David Hume's 'Essays, Moral and Political' contained the perhaps too analytical 'Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.' It was not until 1878, however, that the modern wording of the proverb first appeared in 'Molly Brown,' by the Irish novelist Mr. Margaret Hungerford. The saying has been repeated frequently in the twentieth century." From Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New; by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993).
: : Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
: : The Temptations
: : So in love, sad as could be
: : 'Cause a pretty face got the best of me.
: : Suddenly, you came into my life
: : And gave it meaning and pure delight.
: : Now, good looks, I've learned to do without.
: : 'Cause now I know it's love that really counts.
: : 'Cause I know that...
: : (Beauty's only skin deep, yeah, yeah, yeah.)
: : I know that...
: : Beauty's only skin deep, yes indeed.
: : Now you speak your words warm and sincere.
: : And let's me know that your love is near.
: : A pretty face you may not possess
: : But what I like about you is your tenderness.
: : A pretty face maybe some guys taste
: : But I'll take lovin' in it's place.
: : 'Cause I know that...
: : (Beauty's only skin deep, yeah, yeah, yeah.)
: : And you know that...
: : Beauty's only skin deep, oh baby, oh yeah.
: : (Oh yeah, Oh yeah)
: : (Beauty's only skin deep, yeah, yeah, yeah.)
: : Ooo
: : (Beauty's only skin deep, oh yeah.)
: : Yes it is.
: : My friends ask, what do I see in you
: : But it goes deeper than the eye can view.
: : You have a pleasin' personality
: : And that's an ever lovin' rare quality.
: : Now show me a girl, a girl that's fine
: : And I'll choose the one with true lovin' every time.
: : I know that...
: : (Beauty's only skin deep, yeah, yeah, yeah)
: : And I believe that...
: : Beau- know that beauty's only skin deep.
: : So if you're lookin' for a lover. (Oh yeah)
: : Don't judge a book by it's cover. (Oh yeah)
: : She may be fine on the outside (Oh yeah)
: : But so untrue on the inside. (Oh yeah)
: : Ooo
: IF YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY
: By Jimmy Soul
: If you wanna be happy
: For the rest of your life,
: Never make a pretty woman your wife,
: So from my personal point of view,
: Get an ugly girl to marry you.
: A pretty woman makes her husband look small
: And very often causes his downfall.
: As soon as he marries her
: Then she starts to do
: The things that will break his heart.
: But if you make an ugly woman your wife,
: You'll be happy for the rest of your life,
: An ugly woman cooks her meals on time,
: She'll always give you peace of mind.
: Don't let your friends say
: You have no taste,
: Go ahead and marry anyway,
: Though her face is ugly,
: Her eyes don't match,
: Take it from me she's a better catch.
: Say man.
: Hey baby.
: Saw your wife the other day.
: Yeah?
: Yeah, she's ugly.
: Yeah, she's ugly but she sure can cook.
: Yeah? Okay.
:
I Want to Be Happy (No No Nanette)
NANETTE:
I want to be happy
But I won't be happy
Till I make you happy too.
Life's really worth living
When you are mirth giving
Why can't I give some to you?
When skies are gray
And you say you are blue
I'll send the sun smiling through
I wanna be happy
But I won't be happy
Till I make you happy too.
I want to be happy...worth living
When we are mirth giving
Why can't I give some to you?
When skies...blue
I'll send that sun smilin' through.
I want to be happy...happy too.
I won't be happy
(She won't be happy)
I won't be happy
Till the day you're happy too.
When skies are gray
And you say you are blue
JIMMY:
I'll send the sun smiling through
NANETTE:
I want to be happy
But I won't be happy
Till I make you happy too.
JIMMY:
When skies are gray
And you say you are blue
NANETTE:
[Spoken]
What're you gonna do?
JIMMY:
I'll send the sun smiling through
BOTH:
I want to be happy
But I won't be happy
NANETTE:
Till I make you happy too.
JIMMY:
I can make you happy too.
