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vanity world true-value
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. Richard Baxter
vanity facts recognition
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. William Saroyan
vanity secret chiefs
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Samuel Johnson
vanity emulation folly
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
vanity
Vanity is as old as the mammoth. W. L. George
vanity proud pedants
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Wilkie Collins
vanity clothes envy
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. Veronica Roth
vanity ideas suffering
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. Kenneth Clark
vanity water fifty
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! Frederick the Great
stupidity painful shame
It's a shame stupidity isn't painful. Anton LaVey
stupidity lists satanic
Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.
stupidity faces reason
You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity. Robert Cormier
stupidity honor intellectual
It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity. Woodrow Wilson
stupidity underestimate wealth
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake. Raymond E. Feist
stupidity society world
Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool. Robert M. Hutchins
stupidity consistency opinion
Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion. Walter Bagehot
stupidity answers readiness
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. Saul Bellow
stupidity battle shapes
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages? William Booth
selfishness satanism form
Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfishness care mental-health
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. Roz Chast
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
selfishness causes world
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides. Walter Scott
selfishness noli-me-tangere shame
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. Jose Rizal
selfishness continuity day-to-day
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me. Albert Camus
selfishness size stinginess
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. Laura Lippman
selfishness charity doe
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it. Mason Cooley