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vanity larger-than-life problem
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. Bette Davis
vanity age three
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. Bill Vaughan
vanity potency motive
Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Bertrand Russell
vanity wish trouble
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
vanity people would-be
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.
vanity satisfaction needs
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
vanity glasses shining
Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass. William Shakespeare
vanity funeral world
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
vanity use care
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities. Charles Simmons
funeral together get-together
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often". Bernard Berenson
funerals wishes
He wishes there were more coffins, more funerals and much more pain. David Raskin
funeral pay
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral
funeral littles pay
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
funeral atheism body
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. Charles Bradlaugh
funeral denmark-in-hamlet hamlet-and-ophelia
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
funeral would-be why-not
You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral. Charles Bukowski
funeral last-words contests
I foresee a great funeral contest over me. Alexander the Great
funeral may host
We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals? Amy Poehler
world littles firsts
I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world. Benoit Mandelbrot
world helping mathematics
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
world
The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns Art Alexakis
world-religions may belief
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions. Anthony Storr
world newspapers screens
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world. Bill Bryson
world speed
There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.
world good-things
It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things. Bill Burr
world faces looks
We ought to look the world frankly in the face.
world adequate causes
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence