Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault 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
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
While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled. — Helen Maria Williams Copy Share Image
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no… — Frederick William Robertson 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
Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An'… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field… — Dennis Chavez Copy Share Image
What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse… — Mike Gravel Copy Share Image
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can… — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then… — Odilo Globocnik Copy Share Image
I've been realizing lately how horribly vain I am. I do believe that if I'm successful, it's because of my talent and… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
