The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished,… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain,… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
