[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that… — Saadi 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
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people… — Stella Blum Copy Share Image
What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people… — Gary North Copy Share Image
I've only had a sit-down encounter with Robert once, and that one conversation was the best advice that I have gotten from… — K.Michelle Copy Share Image
[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing… — Lucretius 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
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
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
I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;… — William Shakespeare 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
“Who says I’m vain?” “The comparison: your friend isn’t. But I’m sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you’re vain you… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“You don’t love people for what they can give you. You don’t love them because of what they do for you or… — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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