Vain Quotes · Page 15

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.

— Swami Vivekananda

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

— Henry David Thoreau

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

— John Dewey

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

— Khalil Gibran

The one who did not understood that his times root supports his life tree was born in vain.

— Sorin Cerin

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

— William Dunbar

I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.

— Ranbir Kapoor

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a…

— Abraham Lincoln

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain…

— V. S. Naipaul

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting,…

— Jonathan Raban

What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with…

— Reginald Heber

I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other…

— Gwen Stefani

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the…

— Frances Wright

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good…

— Charles Dickens

“I-I'm just - I knew you were beautiful, knew it so very well, but it's like I just woke up to the…

— Fisher Amelie

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and…

— Harry Vardon

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make…

— Ernst Cassirer

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines…

— James M. Barrie

Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once…

— Galileo Galilei

If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase…

— Jonathan Edwards

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man…

— George Washington

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

— Alexander Pope

“Why should one live? All is vain! To live- that is to thresh straw; to live- that is to burn oneself and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

— Anthony Burgess

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

— Benjamin Franklin

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard…

— George A. Smith

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

— W. C. Fields

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

— Blaise Pascal

I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.

— Alessandra Ambrosio

“Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.”

— Anthony Liccione

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

— Edward Gibbon

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.

— Horatius Bonar

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

— Barry Webster

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

— Joshua Reynolds

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

— Walter Scott

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

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

— Mary Howitt