I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words…

“Indeed, I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.

— Brian Tracy

I pray thee, why do the heathen rage and the people imagine us a vain thing?

— Big Youth

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

— John McCrae

“You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off…

— Alice Walker

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

— Tennessee Williams

“Never praise oneself.”

— Bhagwan Swaminarayan

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going…

— Dermot Mulroney

The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money…

— Laurance Labadie

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break…

— Justin Guarini

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

— Swami Vivekananda

Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

— Michael Yates

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

— Carrie Brownstein

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

— Joseph Stalin

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann