It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live;… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks… — John Gay Copy Share Image
My motivation has to do with what happened to my family. I want to help young people make important decisions at the… — George Chuvalo Copy Share Image
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country.… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I had a face-lift, and I would have another if I needed one. It definitely changed my life. I'm not vain. In… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An'… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
