This is how grown-ups sound when they are intelligent, clever, and well aware of both the human comedy and the human tragedy that measure our distance from the eternal truths. Just listen to the ...

If the people of the year 2000 ever bother to read our predictions for their time, probably they will acquire a lesson in the vanity of human wishes. 1970 April 3 Ada Evening News – Ada OK ...

The Vanity of Human Wishes. By Phyllis McGinley. May 13, 1960. Save this story. Save this story. The New Yorker, May 21, 1960 P. 38. Aged six, she learned ambition. Her desire. View ...

—Samuel Johnson, extracts from The Vanity of Human Wishes or, The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated (1749) From the Archive. Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news ...

Extract from Sarah Leech's poem 'The Vanity of Human Wishes'. Release date: 06 September 2012. Duration: 11 seconds ...

George Grossmith’s sad little comic masterpiece, ‘The Diary of a Nobody,’ reminds readers of a harsh truth: Most of us, no matter how well we may think of ourselves, are unimportant to the ...

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is ...