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
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
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 can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my… — John Howard Payne Copy Share Image
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I can’t do that,” he said, exhaling sharply and staring out the glass into the street. “Why not?” His face softened. “I… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
“Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot... A worthless coward can inflict but a light… — Homer Copy Share Image
I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and… — Edward Stettinius, Jr 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
Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. — William Penn Copy Share Image
