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!

J. Horton

It causes severe illness and high mortality rates.

O. Singh

He is subject to no one else s rule, and the Lord, the King, causes everyone to fall at his feet.

Juan Pierre

This was only the first game, but this game it was evident that once you get guys on base, it causes havoc. It's not just me, it's anybody. That's my intent to start off the game, not necessarily with a triple, but to have a good at-bat and let the offense take it from there.

Walter Cunningham

I think it's important, because we have so many children, who are, more or less like latch-key children, or children who are on their own. They need a plan. This gives them a plan, rather than keeping all this to themselves, which festers and causes more problems internally. Now they know who to go to for help.

Azzam Tamimi

What may be seen as a glorification of terrorism by one person might be seen as an explanation of the causes of terrorism by another person.

Jamie Moyer

I didn't locate well. That usually causes problems, for me especially.

William James

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

Tonya Harding

Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Phil Gramm

I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other occasions, in those 15 cases where there was an impeachment in the House and where the person impeached did not resign first.

Tim Reilly

I think in most cases it's just an example of companies trying to figure out what they have to do to make their services work. These are small companies. They have to ask, what does it take?

Ruben Donis

We are going to monitor all cases of human exposure, but at this point there is no reason to panic.

Mark Sunner

Goner is one of the most incredibly fast-moving and potentially dangerous e-mail viruses we've seen, ... We've seen most cases occur in France, the UK and the United States, in that order.

Martin Jol

I thought for a long time on Friday night about whether I should play them all but in some cases I did not have other options,

Mike Ryan

It is good and reassuring that the system in Turkey is able to detect cases consistent with the disease, but it is premature to say these are human cases of avian flu.

Anne McLellan

It is going to take a very long time for them to be able to resume their lives and even in some cases I'm sure determine whether they want to return to homes that have been largely destroyed or whether they want to start over somewhere else.

James Laughlin

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.