Vain Attempts Quotes
- No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. — Andre Breton
- If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his… — Harry Vardon
- A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 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
- The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite… — Rabindranath Tagore