Today Quotes
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.Thomas Paine
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.Ignazio Silone
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.Author Unknown
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.Samuel Butler
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.Joey Bishop
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.John Churton Collins
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.Alice Thomas Ellis
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.Arthur Helps
The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.Alexander Pope
Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.Francois De La Rochefoucauld