Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats. — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling... Wear a positive move… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
