Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Admiring and a little overwhelmed by the simple opulence of the limousine’s interior, she shook snowflakes from her scarf and tresses, hoping… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“...Grimacing, I plunged a hand into the fouled water to clear the clog, morbid curiosity drawing my youthful eyes to the gray… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Let us not believe that an external fast from visible food alone can possibly be sufficient for perfection of heart and purity… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
