Vain Quotes · Page 26

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and…

— Caroline Knapp

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads…

— Oriana Fallaci

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation…

— Luigi Pirandello

I am intrigued by glamorous women A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman…

— Clark Gable

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance,…

— George Farquhar

Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong…

— Ronald Reagan

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks…

— John Gay

“Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, hélas, I may no more. The vain travail…

— Thomas Wyatt

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart…

— Erica Jong

Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the…

— George Crabbe

A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the…

— John Jortin

The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye…

— Henry Allen Ironside

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.…

— Solomon

I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew.…

— Steven Moffat

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our…

— Henry David Thoreau

I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup,…

— Kathie Lee Gifford

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special…

— Anthony de Mello

When it comes to exercise, everybody has to find what works for them. I watch my body. I look at myself in…

— Montel Williams

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves…

— Maria Montessori

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when…

— Elias Canetti

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the…

— Thomas Nagel

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the…

— Lyman Abbott

I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm…

— Claire Danes

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them,…

— Michael Johnson

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs…

— Walter Scott

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream…

— William Christopher Handy

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try…

— Edsger Dijkstra

It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing…

— Frederick Lenz

I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth,…

— George Washington

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing…

— James Madison

A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who…

— Wang Wei

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like…

— Mark the Evangelist

People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice,…

— Colin Kaepernick