Vanity Plates

Famous quotes containing the words vanity and/or plates:

“We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Angler’s Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,—
“Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer’s cloud?””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)