Quotes about van
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.
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
vans impulsive
Van Gogh was impulsive. Joni Mitchell
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
vanishing problem life-is
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem. Ludwig Wittgenstein
vanity insanity humanity
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity John Cleese
vanity earth way
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth. Elizabeth Smart
vanity stupidity selfishness
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. Eric Hoffer
vanity giving style
If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification. Norman Mailer
vanity trying gang
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority. Emile M. Cioran
van
Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. Andrew Jackson
vancouver win
I want to go to Vancouver in 2010. I already want to win the gold.
vanity drug taste
You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store. Paul Engle
vanity
One can never outlive one's vanity. Mary Wortley Montagu
vanity height censorship
Censorship is the height of vanity. Martha Graham
vanity handsome next
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. Joseph Joubert
vanity guy comfort
I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. Mohsin Hamid
vanity common-sense common
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Julian Casablancas
vanity metrics drunkards
All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics. Mark Twain
vanity grades ability
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
vanity want stories
I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity. Mario Puzo
vanity disaster masters
I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster. Muhammad Ali
vanity morality asks
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right? Martin Luther King, Jr.
vanity longing
What is vanity but the longing to survive? Miguel de Unamuno
vanity virtue ifs
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen! Marcus Tullius Cicero
vanity rude greed
The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There enough women are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.
vanity people morality
moral vanity is the snare of good people. Margaret Deland