Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone… — Heinrich Heine
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise,… — Blaise Pascal
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal
A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. — Isaac Watts
If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the… — Sathya Sai Baba
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds
As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place… — Eugene Delacroix
Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at… — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay… — George Sewell
There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly,… — Guru Nanak
I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain. — Joseph McCarthy
Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats. — Ze Frank
The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some… — Max Planck
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... — Alexander Pushkin
Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of… — Brigham Young
If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn… — Brigham Young
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society. — Gideon Welles
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the… — Galileo Galilei
It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in… — Jawaharlal Nehru
It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order… — Frederick Lenz
He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God.… — Charles Spurgeon
When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee:… — Alphonse de Lamartine

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