i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been realizing lately how horribly vain I am. I do believe that if I'm successful, it's because of my talent and… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then… — Odilo Globocnik Copy Share Image
In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can… — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“I lay down on the bed clasping the pictures and buried my face in the pillow in a vain attempt at silencing… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6).… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image