The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
I had a face-lift, and I would have another if I needed one. It definitely changed my life. I'm not vain. In… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
“In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and… — Dogen Copy Share Image
That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
