Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory. — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. — George Linley Copy Share Image
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust… — Jack London Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can… — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show… — Jane Fonda 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
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me. — Karl Kraus 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
One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
