There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then,… — Aesop Copy Share Image
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered!… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
