“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”
Garrison Keillor
“The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.”
Blaise Pascal
“Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“[On a mournful tune called] Riding to Vanity Fair, ... There was a time/When every day was young/ The sun would always shine/We sang along/When all the songs were sung/ Believing every line.”
Paul McCartney
“They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.”
Bible
“They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.”
“It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.”
Mark Twain
