Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
You, faulty men! Not only got lost on the way of charlatains, but contravened against the divine nature. Weren't settled for the… — Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary Copy Share Image
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people,… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. — Horace Copy Share Image
Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
