How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. — George Linley Copy Share Image
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
I try to dress the bottom I have. The body I have and the bottom I have. I have the intention of… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I've been realizing lately how horribly vain I am. I do believe that if I'm successful, it's because of my talent and… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain. — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I used to be terribly vain. I'd spend a lot of time pampering myself and applying make-up and hoping that I'd look… — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another. — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
