A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part,… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington 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
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in… — Henry Ward Beecher 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live… — Maeve Binchy 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
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain. — Inge Lehmann Copy Share Image
I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain. — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
