"If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them."

-- Fairfield Porter

#Vanity Quotes #Vain Quotes

“When God calls you to an extraordinary task, He provides extraordinary resources..”
“Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.”
“In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.”

Source : Twitter post from May 14, 2011
“It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.”

Source : Ernest K. Gann (2000). “Song of the Sirens”, p.37, Sheridan House, Inc.
“I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.”

Source : Jonathan Littell (2009). “The Kindly Ones: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins
“Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.”

Source : Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235
“An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. -GQ 71”
“I don't want to hear about my death.”

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