Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

Not to be vain, but I have nice long legs, so I like to accentuate them. Find what part of your body you love most… — Khloe Kardashian
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. — Swami Vivekananda
Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love. — Oprah Winfrey
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection! — Laozi
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas… — Richard Dawkins
In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. — Confucius
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the… — Christina Rossetti
The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both… — Henry Allen Ironside
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden
We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why… — Edwin Markham
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. — William Dunbar
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in… — Thomas Sydenham
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and… — Frances Wright
While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled. — Unknown Author
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. — Sri Aurobindo
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows… — William Blake
[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of… — Vincent de Paul
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the… — Henry David Thoreau
Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary;… — Thomas a Kempis
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. — Ezra Taft Benson
Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we… — George Q. Cannon
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name… — Ezra Taft Benson

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