Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I know I don't want to take the Lord's name in vain, and I don't want to drop any F-bombs. — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“In vain you beg, in vain you ache, in vain you've opened your wrecked heart wide. Perhaps in heaven the rainclouds quake… — Gabriele D'Annunzio Copy Share Image
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to… — Ross Thomas Copy Share Image
Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
“Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. — Horace Copy Share Image
O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Love, so many people use the word in vain (Love). When it's conveinent to get what they need. — Mya Copy Share Image
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it. — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
