Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. - Benjamin Franklin

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. – Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Other Quotes from
Vanity
category

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Vanity

We speak little if not egged on by vanity. – François de la Rochefoucauld

Category:
Vanity

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Vanity

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
Vanity

Random Quotes

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. – Bernard Berenson

Category:
Taxation

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
War

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult. – Mohamed ElBaradei

Category:
respect

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. – Montaigne

Category:
Live Now