If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale. — Walther von Brauchitsch Copy Share Image
Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
