If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. — William Penn Copy Share Image
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. — William Shakespeare 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
Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ...… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved… — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I… — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man… — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Did Donald Trump apologize for taking after somebody in a Twitter war and making fun of her weight? Did he apologize for… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image