It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain." — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I wouldnt describe myself as vain but I am particular about my appearance. — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live;… — Willa Cather 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
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
![“Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then…” quote by Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e85/swami-vivekananda-53_animal_is-enjoyment-the-goal-of-life-were-it-so_2304269.jpg)
