“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer
On Being a Good Man
The Way of Men (2012)
“If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.”
Jack Valenti (1921–2007) President of the MPAA
He later paraphrased this statement in a pamplet: "If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!" (28 February 2002) (PDF document) http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/022802valenti.pdf <br class="br">Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)
Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) United States Senator
On big business and big government; speech before American Bar Association, New York (August 8, 1978), reported in Alan F. Pater, Jason R. Pate, What They Said in 1978 (1979), p. 168.
Anna J. Cooper (1858–1964) African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar
Source: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892), p. 37
Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist
Quote of the week #8 – Monbiot: "looks like I’ve boobed" http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/17/quote-of-the-week-8-monbiot-looks-like-ive-boobed/, wattsupwiththat.com, May 17, 2009. <br class="br">2009
“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
Giacomo Leopardi book Zibaldone
Source: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827