A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain. — Charles Fenno Hoffman Copy Share Image
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. — Confucius Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless.… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if… — Benjamin Hoadly Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Alas, it was in vain that I implored the dungeon-keep of Roussainville, that I begged it to send out to meet me… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“ One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in… — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.] — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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