Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

William Saroyan

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

W. L. George

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Wilkie Collins

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Veronica Roth

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

Kenneth Clark

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

Frederick the Great

Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Vinny Guadagnino

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Joni Mitchell

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

Calvin Hill

It's the first painting I purchased in 1969 when I was a rookie.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Robin Ince

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.

Thomas Gray

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Swami Vivekananda

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.