Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Rather than providing him with economic opportunity, the Act of that name seems designed to make the poor man do penance all… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another. — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and… — Hannah Woolley Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech.… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not… — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain. — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
I'm not too vain - I sometimes take pride in my appearance, but I stick to the rule never to spend longer… — Nicholas Hoult Copy Share Image
In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
