Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I know I don't want to take the Lord's name in vain, and I don't want to drop any F-bombs. — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“La vie est vaine, Un peu d’amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis—Bonjour! La vie est brève: Un peu d’espoir, Un peu… — George du Maurie Copy Share Image
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
