Vain Quotes · Page 20

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

— Henry David Thoreau

“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

— Gideon Welles

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

— Edward Young

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

— Edmund Spenser

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

— John Dryden

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

— Charles Dickens

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more…

— Samuel Beckett

Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life…

— Gautama Buddha

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of…

— Sallust

“No one can know sincere happiness, without 1st knowing sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity & rareness of such a fiery…

— Fisher Amelie

True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately…

— Zenkei Shibayama

There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at…

— Peter Greenaway

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when…

— Anonymous

The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The…

— Anonymous

In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain,…

— Madame Roland

And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would…

— Hugh Nibley

Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your…

— H. P. Blavatsky

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing,…

— Pope Pius IV

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

— Matthew McConaughey

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal…

— Phoebe Cary

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Every woman actress is somewhat vain, and I am, too. You really have to take care of yourself.

— Sibel Kekilli

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.

— Ze Frank

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

— Louis Kronenberger

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain…

— Waris Dirie

Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.

— Anonymous

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

— Gautama Buddha

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

— William Gilmore Simms

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

— Anthony Burgess

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

— Benjamin Franklin

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard…

— George A. Smith

I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.

— Alessandra Ambrosio

“Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.”

— Anthony Liccione

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

— W. C. Fields