It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Love, so many people use the word in vain (Love). When it's conveinent to get what they need. — Mya Copy Share Image
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. — Horace Copy Share Image
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.” — Sarah Addison Allen 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
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
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
I try to dress the bottom I have. The body I have and the bottom I have. I have the intention of… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott 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
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
I bet you think this status is about you, dont you, dont you? Youre so vain! — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Of course not, Drew. Why should you chase anyone, when you're so content to tlet everyone chase you?” — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We must ensure that the service and sacrifice of our Armed Forces since 9/11 remains not in vain. — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image