I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
SpongeBob represents idiocy. He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain. — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into… — Mencius Copy Share Image
In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
My own opinion is that the suburban project is over. We are done. We don't know it yet. For about five years… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
