Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I'd discovered that the sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
The character is everything that I felt really strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things, and… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“In vain you beg, in vain you ache, in vain you've opened your wrecked heart wide. Perhaps in heaven the rainclouds quake… — Gabriele D'Annunzio Copy Share Image
If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain,… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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