Vain Quotes · Page 17

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such…

— Dante Alighieri

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

— Anonymous

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

— Stellan Skarsgard

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

— William Shakespeare

My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

— Alexa Chung

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

— Philip Sidney

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

— Inge Lehmann

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of…

— Sallust

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“No one can know sincere happiness, without 1st knowing sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity & rareness of such a fiery…

— Fisher Amelie

There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at…

— Peter Greenaway

True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately…

— Zenkei Shibayama

Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life…

— Gautama Buddha

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,…

— Mark Twain

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a…

— John Boyd Orr

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such…

— Gautama Buddha

People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what…

— Kenny Smith

The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and…

— Anonymous

... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words,…

— Bohumil Hrabal

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.…

— Charlotte Bronte

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his…

— John Locke

It is vain to try and hide a bad spirit from the eyes of them who are spiritual, for it will show…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

— Lord Byron

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

— Richard Dawkins

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

— John Shaw Billings

“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for…

— Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

— Tracey Gold

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

— Theodore Parker

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

— William Penn

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

— Georges Bizet

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

— Poemen

Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

— George Eliot

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

— William Wordsworth

Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity.

— Michael Travis

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

— James Anthony Froude