That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and… — Dogen Copy Share Image
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to… — Giorgio Napolitano Copy Share Image
It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors… — William Gilmore Simms 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
When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
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
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
“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless.… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if… — Benjamin Hoadly Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished,… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in… — Owen Feltham 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 of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!” quote by Adam Sedgwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/adam-sedgwick-38188_beast_if-the-vestiges-be-true-the-labours-of-s_2635257.png)
