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| All is sugar to the vain, even the praise of fools. | 1 |
| All is vanity and vexation of spirit. Bible. | 2 |
| Every man has just so much vanity as he wants understanding. Pope. | 3 |
| Every man thinks his own copper gold. German, Danish. | 4 |
| Every man thinks his own geese swans. | 5 |
| Every man thinks his own owl a falcon. Dutch. | 6 |
| Every one thinks he has more than his own share of brains. Italian. | 7 |
| Every one thinks himself able to advise another. | 8 |
| I see thy vanity through the holes of thy coat. (Plato speaking to the Cynic Philosopher.) | 9 |
| Make not thy tail broader than thy wings. | 10 |
| Make not your sail too big for your ballast. | 11 |
| No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity. Dr. Johnson. | 12 |
| She doesn’t think small beer of herself. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 13 |
| She that looks too much at herself looks too little to herself. | 14 |
| The cow rails at the pig for being black. Chinese. | 15 |
| The frying-pan says to the kettle, “Avaunt, black brows.” | 16 |
| The kettle calls the sauce-pan smutty. Turkish. | 17 |
| The kiln calls the oven burnt brows. | 18 |
| The pan says to the pot, “Keep off or you’ll smut me.” Italian. | 19 |
| The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black. Dutch. | 20 |
| The raven chides blackness. | 21 |
| The shovel scouts the poker. French. | 22 |
| The sooty oven mocks the black chimney. | 23 |
| There is no doubt that vanity is our principal cause of infidelity. Knox. | 24 |
| Vanity has no greater foe than vanity. French. | 25 |
| Vanity is the food of fools. Swift. | 26 |
| Vanity is the vice of low minds; a man of spirit is too proud to be vain. Swift. | 27 |
| Vanity will prove vexation. | 28 |
| “We hounds killed the hare,” quoth the dog. | 29 |
| “What a dust have I raised,” quoth the fly upon the coach. | 30 |
| “What a dust we kicked up,” said the fly to the car-wheel. | 31 |
| “Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for nothing,” said the pig to the horse. Russian. | 32 |
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