Vain Quote by John Gay Download Open image “Who talks much, must talk in vain.” — John Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Vain
I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?” — Vince Vawter Copy Share Image
“Some time ago I discovered that I could no longer speak aloud or read aloud from a stage, even for the sake of hearing… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay Copy Share Image
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. — John Gay Copy Share Image
'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either. — John Gay Copy Share Image
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too… — John Gay Copy Share Image
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend… — John Gay Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. — Aesop Copy Share Image
If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.… — Eliot Noyes Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars. — George Washington Copy Share Image
