“Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to… — Ross Thomas Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that… — Saadi Copy Share Image
My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Copy Share Image
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary… — William Law Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“You don’t love people for what they can give you. You don’t love them because of what they do for you or… — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
“Who says I’m vain?” “The comparison: your friend isn’t. But I’m sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you’re vain you… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“In vain you beg, in vain you ache, in vain you've opened your wrecked heart wide. Perhaps in heaven the rainclouds quake… — Gabriele D'Annunzio Copy Share Image
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds… — Chris Sligh Copy Share Image
I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
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