Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy.… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal… — Sumner Welles Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which… — Georg Prochaska Copy Share Image
We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and… — Edward Stettinius, Jr Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Rather than providing him with economic opportunity, the Act of that name seems designed to make the poor man do penance all… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot... A worthless coward can inflict but a light… — Homer Copy Share Image
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm… — William Cameron Townsend Copy Share Image
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material,… — Eliot Noyes Copy Share Image
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered!… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
“Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the… — John Jortin Copy Share Image
