Conceit is the quicksand of success.
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, To thee I send this written embassage, To witness duty, not to show my wit: Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it, But that I hope some good conceit of thine In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it; Till whatsoever star that guides my moving Points on me graciously with fair aspect And puts apparel on my tatter'd
When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment, That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To
the victory: of great riches, there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit So saith Solomon; Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner, but the sight of it with his eyes?
Discard all conceit, and always be prepared to learn humbly from the people around you — you will be the one to benefit!
The conceit came to me of a copious grove of singing birds, and in their midst a simple harmonic duo, two human souls, steadily asserting their own pensiveness, joyousness.
George Burns (1896 - 1996) Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods.
Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Frog and the Ox The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 1867 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
" The smaller the Mind the greater the Conceit.
"That was a cut at you because of your conceit.
"Conceit!
