All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Hating people is like throwing stones at the tree which cant give you any fruit. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“All this world's glory seemeth vain to me, And all their shows but shadows, saving she.” — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain. — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. — Edmund Waller 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
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between… — Megan McCafferty 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
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
As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.… — Henry David Thoreau 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
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“Whether she died in vain or not is for me to decide."- Sesshomaru” — Rumiko Takahashi Copy Share Image
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“The one who did not understood that his time’s root supports his life tree was born in vain.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. — Anacreon Copy Share Image
Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
