Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge… — William Alexander Copy Share Image
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
“If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan 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
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and… — Edward Stettinius, Jr Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring'… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots. — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thou didst it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm… — William Cameron Townsend Copy Share Image
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
“You don’t love people for what they can give you. You don’t love them because of what they do for you or… — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be… — William Penn Copy Share Image
