Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup… — Anthony Edwards
It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits,… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is… — Maeve Binchy
In a gas, motion has the upper hand; the atoms are moving so fast that they have no time to enter into any sort of… — William Henry Bragg
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone. — Buddha
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. — Louis Kronenberger
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot… — Jacob Bronowski
It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer. — William of Occam
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. — George Dennison Prentice
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. — Friedrich Schiller
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain,… — William Alexander
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain. — Dave Pelzer
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain… — Emma Willard
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do… — John Strachan
In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. — James McHenry
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in… — Jacques Lacan
If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it. — George A. Smith
These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind… — Caroline Knapp
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting… — George Orwell
DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number --just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.… — Ambrose Bierce
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to… — Abraham Cowley
WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be… — Ambrose Bierce
If the truth shall have made thee free, thou shalt not care for the vain words of men — Thomas Kempis
Let's make the best of the situation Before I finally go insane. Please don't say we'll never find a way And tell me all my… — Eric Clapton

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