Vain Quotes

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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her… — Akhenaton
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control… — Lord Byron
I'm not vain, I'm insecure. — Mariah Carey
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. — Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with… — Thomas Jefferson
If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his… — Harry Vardon
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for… — Sam Houston
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was… — Alexander MacLaren
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Violence is just, where kindness is vain. — Pierre Corneille
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only… — Hideki Tojo
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this… — Dorothy L. Sayers
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth… — Thomas a Kempis
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. — William Gilmore Simms
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is… — Charles Eliot Norton
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train. — Roger Penrose
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but… — Philip Sidney

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