One has certain foolish vanities.

Who are we, that we should seek With foolish vanity to near her state?

Bruce was a modest man, who had no foolish vanity to tell him that his own theories were superior to brute facts.

Not to admit that is a foolish vanity.

His central goal in life, his wish to rise, "to shape and even to control events," now seemed "nothing but foolish vanity."

He was vain, and sometimes acted out of foolish vanity.

Yet that seemed foolish vanity, for one with no memory.

My daughter and I are above the foolish vanities to which so many persons cling.

What a problem her foolish vanity had made for her!

It is a foolish vanity, to believe that a man's influence can extend much beyond his own time, and I shall be well rid of it.