Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Historiallisissa kysymyksissä suurinkin mahdollinen varmuus on vain likiarvo.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen! — Darrell Scott Copy Share Image
You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered -… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. — James McHenry Copy Share Image
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. — Aesop Copy Share Image
“But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image