“ Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
“ For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
“ I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others' uses. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
“ O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
“ The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines. ”
- George V. Higgins- Copy
“ Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
“ Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away… ”
- The Bible- Copy
“ Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
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