Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for… — Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover Copy Share Image
I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason. — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important. — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people,… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight;… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty. Because there is no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain. — John Shaw Billings Copy Share Image
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain. — Inge Lehmann Copy Share Image
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. — William Penn Copy Share Image
I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain. — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
