Lies Greed Misery

Famous quotes containing the words lies, greed and/or misery:

“Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“He was all for catharsis and purification, he dreamed of an aesthetic consecration that should cleanse society of luxury, the greed of gold and all unloveliness.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)