No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. (Edith Wharton)

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Edith Wharton

Related topics

frail human nest vanity weight

Related quotes

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. View quote
Samuel Johnson
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. View quote
Harold Wilson
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. View quote
Aldous Huxley