Vanity Plate Penetration

Famous quotes containing the words vanity and/or plate:

“Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Say “Yessum” to the ladies, an’ “Yessur” to the men,
And when they’s company, don’t pass yer plate for pie again;
But, thinkin’ of the things yer’d like to see upon that tree,
Jes ‘fore Christmas be as good as yer kin be!”
—Eugene Field (1850–1895)