Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Happiness and self-esteem are proportional. The better you feel about yourself, the happier you are. “I get up every morning, and I… — Will Bowen Copy Share Image
“I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger was at myself,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Once upon a time; Their was a girl called CHARITY, on her way to PROSPERITY, she met a guy called POMPOSITY, that… — Swag Jagar Copy Share Image
“As the bones, flesh, entrails and blood vessels are enclosed by a skin that renders the aspect of men endurable, so the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Where was my head just then? I've already said I'm plain yet all of a sudden I think I'm The Shit? I'm… — Penelope Fletcher Copy Share Image
As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice… — Matias Dalsgaard Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
“I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
![“[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/albert-einstein-33_acknowledge_newton-wrote-to-halley-that-he-would-not_344363.jpg)
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