Best fool & vanity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.”

“Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.”

Believe Littles Matter Talent Fool Vanity Artistic

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.”

Men Way Courses Water Wise Humility Fool Praise Spread Speed Glad Vanity Canvas Shallow Bark Brethren Ballast

Book:Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

“I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.”

Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.”

Ifs Men Fool Consequence Cures Vanity Folly

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.”

Men Wise Fool Slave Vanity Vain Paradise Glorious Admiration Idols Scorn Vaunt

Author:Francis Bacon

“I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.”

Thinking Hands Half Doubt Wise Fool Goes On Vanity Despise Ambitious Restless Stimulus Exertion Ploughing

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.”

May I Can Talent Fool Ordinary Increase Vanity Ease Upset Diminish

Book:The collected letters