The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to… — Giorgio Napolitano Copy Share Image
It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long… — Taran Killam Copy Share Image
The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do… — Evariste Galois Copy Share Image
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
“Alas, it was in vain that I implored the dungeon-keep of Roussainville, that I begged it to send out to meet me… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“ One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we… — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many… — Uffie Copy Share Image
As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,… — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's… — John Newton Copy Share Image
All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain,… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
