How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain." — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them… — Isaac Hecker Copy Share Image
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain,… — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I wouldnt describe myself as vain but I am particular about my appearance. — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest. — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. — John Owen Copy Share Image
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain. — Charles Fenno Hoffman Copy Share Image
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
