No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in… — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain… — Fairfield Porter Copy Share Image
When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth’s sake, not even withholding his life, and believing… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the… — Belle Starr Copy Share Image
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
