Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

The vain being is the really solitary being. — Berthold Auerbach
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what… — Hippocrates
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference… — James Madison
You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in… — Bruce Springsteen
If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a… — Bram Stoker
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that. — Jack Gilbert
Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain. — Horatius Bonar
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so. — Helena Rubinstein
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. — Grace Jones
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit… — James Lee Burke
We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died… — Marek Belka
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did… — Dennis Chavez
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration. — Nicholas Culpeper
We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we… — Susan Collins
I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal. — Waris Dirie
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier… — Mike Gravel
I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain. — Bob Dylan
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?"… — Richard P. Feynman
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of… — Francis Bacon
I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. — Mary Boykin Chesnut
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. — Johann Georg Hamann
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience… — Leonardo da Vinci
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight… — Oriana Fallaci
And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore… — Robert Burns

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