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
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. — Francis Bacon 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
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
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6).… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I learned from this… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as… — William Shakespeare 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
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
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
