It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. — Aesop Copy Share Image
In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. — James McHenry Copy Share Image
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory. — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
SpongeBob represents idiocy. He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain. — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished,… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part,… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
