Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies.… — Donald J. Boudreaux
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those… — Baron de Montesquieu
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to… — Pope Pius XII
Baptism is a sign to God, to angels, and to heaven that we do the will of God, and there is no other way beneath… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truthâ€™s sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only… — Samuel Johnson
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts. — John Calvin
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life. — Ramakrishna
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. — Matthew Henry
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We… — J C Ryle
Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is… — Dogen
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on… — William Christopher Handy
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we… — Jonathan Goforth
I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to… — Drew Barrymore
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse. — Georges Bizet
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain. — Karl Kraus
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live… — David Brainerd

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