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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
Yousef Karsh
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
Elayne Boosler
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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
St. Bernard
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My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
Richard C. Cushing
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It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
George Foreman
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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
Guy Debord
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Christopher Morley
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. - You've Had Your Time, 1990.
Anthony Burgess
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.
Baltasar Gracian
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.
Eric Hoffer
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Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell
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