Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public… — Evgeny Morozov
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in… — Nevil Shute
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of… — Emile Durkheim
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind? — Marianne Williamson
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

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