Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Davis

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Bill Vaughan

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.

Bertrand Russell

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Bertrand Russell

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Blaise Pascal

Vanity is but the surface.

Blaise Pascal

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Blaise Pascal

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Janine Benyus

Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.

William Shakespeare

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

Joe Wilcox

Emulation is slower, sometimes much slower, than applications that run natively.

Hosea Ballou

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

Horace Mann

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

William Maxwell

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Helen Rowland

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious

Bible Bible

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

Bob Costas

You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you?

Jean de La Fontaine

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]