Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Diderot

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

Denis Diderot

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Alexander Smith

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

William Shakespeare

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Diane Lane

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Diane Lane

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

Edgar Allan Poe

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Peter Tolan

I did a scene and he started laughing and said he'd seen everything he needed to see.

David Nicholls

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

Abraham Lincoln

Too big to cry too young to laugh...

Ryan Gosling

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

William Shakespeare

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

Mahmoud Abbas

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

French Proverb

Life is an onion and one peels it crying

Noel Gallagher

Liam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.

Denny Green

Leonard was very sick all morning. He got IVs and the doctor made a judgment that he could play. Leonard made a judgment that he wanted to play, and then we played. When it's over, we don't make excuses. We don't make alibis and we really don't cry about it. We move on.

Danny Garcia

My kids are very traumatized now. They were screaming and crying in the kitchen,

Jodie Sweetin

Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!

E. P. Thompson

One timely cry of warning can save nine of surprise.

Rachel Zoe

My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.

Atharva Veda

My ears do not hear, and my eyes are not beautiful. I am in such pain; I am a poor cripple, crying at Your Door.