"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new……" — Matthew Hale
"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."
More Childish Quotes
- He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and… — Mikhail Bakunin
- At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life… — Drew Barrymore
- Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
- Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and… — Annie Besant
- To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all.… — Samuel Butler
- To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Not every age is fit for childish sports. — Plautus
- An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been… — Sigmund Freud
- Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only… — Elizabeth Bowen
- No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away… — Francis Bacon
- It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
- For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein