Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain. — Rosalie Bertell Copy Share Image
“For a girl who hated looking at herself, I was at risk of becoming vain.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Do my questions annoy you?” He glanced at her, his surprise evident. “No. I’m far too vain to object; I am my… — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered -… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You look on the Internet, and people are transforming themselves on a daily basis, and it's not a superficial thing, it's not… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God! — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.' — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
We are so vain that we even care for the opinions of those we don't care for. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
