beauty is in a the eye of the beholder?

Question

i never really understood this saying. what does i mean to you?

Answer 1

it means u may find something to b beautiful but others may not.

Answer 2

Mostly, I think it means that if you love someone or something enough, they will appear beautiful to you no matter what they look like. To see this in action go to children's burn ward and look in the eyes of the parents of the burn victims.
The beholder is the one doing the looking, so its really what that person believes about what they are looking at that determines whether it will seem beautiful or ugly.
Take, for example, snakes. Many of them have intricate, beautiful patterns and colors, so much so that people have made their skins into belts and handbags. But while a person might look at the handbag and think its beautiful, many will look at the snake and be disgusted, (not me, I'm more disgusted by someone killing the snake to make the bag). Hope that helps.

Answer 3

i am Indian. people in Australia (that's where i am now) treat me like i am just not there. i feel like an idiot here, it is like there is nowhere to turn. and the worst part is, i am going through puberty now, and so i have got pimples all over my face.
i go to a christian school, where 90% of the student population is white. i have not been given equal opportunities to express myself. and this is not because i am of a different race to the other teens in my school. it is because they have labeled me. i am the UGLY one.
yes, every high school has one. that fat, ugly kid with pimples all over her face. but is that really what the people of today look for in a person, you think. well, the sad truth is that if you do not look like those girls in magazines and movies, you are considered 'fat' or 'ugly'
my mother used to tell me that i was a beautiful child. right up until she left me here. alone with nowhere to go, stuck in a place where there is no escape. i get three square meals a day, and an education. i am happy here.
but it is hell. i am treated nicely, but that is only at face distance. people talk behind my back. "look at how ugly she is" "i wouldn't want to date her" "i would not be caught dead wearing those shoes"
but have they really gotten to know me? have they seen and felt what i have felt? the simple answer to that is no.
nobody in the entire world understands. no one really cares.
my Yahoo avatar is really pretty. i wish i could be like that. but i have to admit it. i look disgusting... to those people who are insensitive jerks.
but personally, i think that i am perfect. not that i am vain or anything. i never get to be vain in front of those girls.. they're too busy labelling me. but i think that i look just like any one of those other girls.
i have never worn makeup in my entire life. i think that covering up what is inside of you is not the solution, and beauty sometimes is not in how short your skirt is or how much money you have.
beauty is about what you feel on the inside. are you beautiful? well, everyone is, and they don't need makeup to prove that.
this may be a very cliche answer to your question, but beauty is what you think it is, and that does not depend upon some celebrity magazine or a movie.
you are part of a world full of undiscovered, truly beautiful people. you just need to think about it... that's all there is to it...

Answer 4

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Meaning

Literal meaning

Origin

This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek. It didn't appear in its current form in print until the 19th century, but in the meantime there were various written forms that expressed much the same thought. In 1588, the English dramatist John Lyly, in his Euphues and his England, wrote:

"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote."

Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love's Labours Lost, 1588:

Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues

Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote:

Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion

David Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:

"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

The person who is widely credited with coining the saying in its current form is Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (née Hamilton), who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of 'The Duchess'. In Molly Bawn, 1878, there's the line "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which is the earliest citation of it that I can find in print.

Answer 5

Suppose there is a beautiful person in front of you and you are looking at that person. Then there will be an image of that beauty in your retina (eye). This situaltion is what is known as 'beauty is in the eye of a beholder'.

Answer 6

the real quote is :
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Answer 7

It means its depend upon u, how u r looking the things from ur point of view. its not must to be good for u that everyone thought good for them its u only can decide what is good or bad from ur point of view.

Answer 8

it means...wateva one percieves of a situation is a reflection of his own character....
let me give u another proverb 4 it...
sum ppl complain dat beautiful rose has thorns and some rejoice dat deres a beauty named rose in d midst of thorns....
so u c, every individual has his own way of decipherin a situation....

Answer 9

It means what others find ugly is not ugly at all for you. Let's take for instance, your boyfriend or your girfriend. Why isn't anyone trying to take he/she away from you. See what im saying.

Oh my God, i'm just kidding. You know what i mean.

Answer 10

it means that some thing only matters to you if u know its value or u care about it otherwise it means nothing, or worthless