Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and… — Samuel Johnson 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
The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
“I-I'm just - I knew you were beautiful, knew it so very well, but it's like I just woke up to the… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it. — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. — Confucius 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
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
