“Never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.” — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good . — Maimonides Copy Share Image
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My friends think I'm vain because I think every Taylor Swift song is about me — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We must ensure that the service and sacrifice of our Armed Forces since 9/11 remains not in vain. — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
“Of course not, Drew. Why should you chase anyone, when you're so content to tlet everyone chase you?” — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I bet you think this status is about you, dont you, dont you? Youre so vain! — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain. — Hugh Martin Copy Share Image
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
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