Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih. — Abdullah ibn Mubarak
To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom. — Lord Acton
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a… — Horace Mann
Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it… — Swami Vivekananda
Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain. — Brad Alan Lewis
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it… — Edsger Dijkstra
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain… — James Madison
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. — James Anthony Froude
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided… — Michel Houellebecq
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. — James Russell Lowell
No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown… — Samuel Johnson
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of… — Blaise Pascal
Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. — Robert Burns
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked… — E. M. Forster
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death. — Pope John Paul II
Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain. — Benjamin Franklin
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. — Edmund Waller
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity… — Joseph Conrad
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a… — John Tillotson

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