Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon Category: Vanity
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898 Category: Vanity
Anger makes your life — and your body — off-key. All bitter emotions do. – Terri Guillemets, “A turning trial by fire,” 1999 Category: Anger
Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. – Hart Crane Category: Homosexuality
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia Category: Poetry
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. – Milton Friedman Category: good
