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Vain Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Laws without morals are in vain.
- In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no…
- I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the…
- I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
- Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.
- I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs…
More Vain Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr
- Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he… — P T Barnum
- The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
- To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
- I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. — Saul Bellow
- 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