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.

Curt Schilling

Steroids is cheating, and winning without honor is not winning.

Wendee Saintsing

Some of the teams won two games, and Anderson's kids put up some pretty big numbers. I'm proud of her for getting the honor again.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Cartooning is an honorable thing

Dianne Jones

It is a pleasure to work with Harvey. I think it is an honor to be represented by such professional employees.

Andrew Park

It is an honor to go to the same school as him.

Carlos Santana

It is an honor to be here and to be of service with our music.

Michael O'Leary

It is being done in honor of St. Patrick. It's not as though I'm having something I would normally have. It's a special thing.

O. J. Simpson

That would be an honor for me. I'm a Texas girl, so you can't go wrong there.

Scot Shields

I was pumped. It is an honor to be on the same team with the rest of those players.

George H. W. Bush

restore decency and integrity to the Oval Office.

Charles Stillman

Have you no sense of decency? ... Have you no sense of decency at long last?

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

No one in the new administration will tell you this subject is taboo, ... It should be discussed in public, but within the framework of decency and ethics.

Ed Ward

Neither one of them had the decency to come into his office, after they had been running into the office all week. Neither of them had the decency to call.

Lee Siegel

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.

Alphonso Jackson

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Benjamin Franklin

Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy Pride.

Mark Barrowcliffe

There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.

Amanda Lindhout

My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians.