Quotes about van
vanity hair gray
Gray hairs are death's blossoms. Friedrich Schiller
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 vices danger
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. John Adams
vanity ideas suffering
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. Kenneth Clark
vanity temptation natural
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman. Jonathan Swift
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 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 together rudeness
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. Johann Kaspar Lavater
vanity envy feelings
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
vanity profound veins
Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile. Ralph Waldo Emerson
vanity fame posthumous
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. Marcus Aurelius
vanity fame everlasting
And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.
vanguard
Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom Pema Chodron
vanity enemy way
To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity. Jorge Luis Borges
vans impulsive
Van Gogh was impulsive. Joni Mitchell
vanity wealth virtue
Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues? Lisa Kleypas
vanity quality purpose
When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses. John Stuart Mill
vanity god-love
All is vanity but to love God and serve Him. Thomas a Kempis
vanity lovely married
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. Matthew Macfadyen
vanity stupidity ifs
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them. Lucy Maud Montgomery
vanity rome despair
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair. Louisa May Alcott
vanity years fire
The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves. Paulo Coelho
vanity hazards accepting
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession. Moss Hart
vanity envy feelings
Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us. Jim Morrison
vanity wells reader
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. John Doerr
vanity people soul
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting. Lewis B. Smedes
vanity bravery
The French courage proceeds from vanity Lord Byron
vanity may example
Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.
vanity conventions renounce
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Gustav Mahler