| "The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't." »Andrew Schneider |
| "If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity." »Kedar Joshi |
| "The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead." »Sir George Savile |
| "It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love." »Sir Arthur Helps |
| "There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in." »Helen Hayes |
| "When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial." »Joyce Carol Oates |
| "It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all." »Heinrich Heine |
| "Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity." »Henry Bromel |
| "Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy." »Jean de la Bruyere |
| "Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive." »James Boswell |
| "The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'" »Dexter Scott King |
| "Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second." »Helen Hunt Jackson |
| "When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity." »Dale Carnegie |
| "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." »T. E. Lawrence |
| "The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress." »Unknown |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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