Vain Quotes · Page 16

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

— Oprah Winfrey

I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary…

— John Lithgow

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

— Alexander Pope

“In vain!—As fall the dews on quenchless sands, Blood only serves to wash Ambition's hands!”

— Lord Byron

“If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“There is nothing more disgraceful than a vain man." "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

— Devin Madson

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I…

— Josiah Royce

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on…

— Horace Mann

Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them…

— Isaac Hecker

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world…

— Wilfred Owen

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they…

— H. G. Wells

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently…

— Michel de Montaigne

... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing…

— Chris Ware

Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain,…

— Jeremiah Wright

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat,…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting…

— Patricia Mauceri

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain…

— Sam Houston

The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is…

— Nikola Tesla

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

— Alfred de Musset

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

— Carl Jung

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

— Francis Quarles

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

— Matthew Henry

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

— Michel de Montaigne

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

— Robin Ince

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

— Jack Gilbert

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

We are so vain that we even care for the opinions of those we don't care for.

— Anonymous

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

— Robert Southwell

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

— Alexander Pope

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

— Joseph McCarthy