All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
I know I don't want to take the Lord's name in vain, and I don't want to drop any F-bombs. — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet… — Lavrentiy Beria 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 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
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
You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra 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
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
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
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
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