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 ...

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 ...

The Vanity of Human Wishes (From Near the Ocean Series by Robert Lowell Poem XXVIII) Medium: crayon on paper Size: 69.5 x 48.5 cm. (27.4 x 19.1 in.) Description: * Sale: * Estimate: * Price: * Price ...

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 ...

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

Anya Taylor-Joy plays the manipulative-but-well-intentioned titular character Emma in Autumn de Wilde's adaptation of the oft-revisited Austen novel. Focus Features Jane Austen’s irony thrives ...

From time immemorial, human folly has inspired artists to create some of their most enduring works. Organizing their observations into such familiar tropes as "The Seven Deadly Sins," "The Ship ...

Julia Fox Wore a Clawed Hand and Human Hair As Accessories at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party “You know what, I’m having fun and that’s all that matters.” By Derek Lawrence ...