Benevolent Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Benevolent Feds Hungry Pride Spiteful Vanity Wells
Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
