Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured… — Jonathan Goforth Copy Share Image
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I know people's problems: the problems of those who work hard, who must slave away. The couples who have two incomes but… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“I'd discovered that the sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... My plan is to never… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the… — Belle Starr Copy Share Image
Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling... Wear a positive move… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and its obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they… — Katherine Webb Copy Share Image
