Quotes about Vain

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Votes: 6

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Votes: 6

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Votes: 6

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Votes: 6

I have been vain since birth. Votes: 4

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. Votes: 4

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. Votes: 4

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. Votes: 4

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Votes: 4

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. Votes: 4

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Votes: 4

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again. Votes: 4

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. Votes: 4

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. Votes: 4

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Votes: 4

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Votes: 4

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. Votes: 4

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. Votes: 4

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. Votes: 4

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. Votes: 4

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. Votes: 4

I am intrigued by glamorous women A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to. Votes: 4

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain. Votes: 4

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Votes: 4

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. Votes: 3

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. Votes: 3

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! Votes: 3

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind. Votes: 3

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain." Votes: 3

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. Votes: 3

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main. Votes: 3

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. Votes: 3

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. Votes: 3

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Votes: 2

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. Votes: 2

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. Votes: 2

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Votes: 2

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. Votes: 2

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. Votes: 2

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. Votes: 2

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone. Votes: 2

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain. Votes: 2

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. Votes: 2

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Votes: 2

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. Votes: 2

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Votes: 2

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. Votes: 2

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. Votes: 2

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. Votes: 2

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 infinity; this does not change its nature. Votes: 2

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. Votes: 2

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. Votes: 2

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Votes: 2

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God. Votes: 2

You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen! Votes: 2

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain. Votes: 1

real beauty is never vain. Votes: 0

Nature does nothing in vain. Votes: 0

I'm not vain, I'm insecure. Votes: 0

I'm vain because I'm imperfect. Votes: 0

Emperors are vain and useless things. Votes: 0

Laws without morals are in vain. Votes: 0

Nature has made nothing in vain. Votes: 0

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. Votes: 0

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain. Votes: 0

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. Votes: 0

Violence is just, where kindness is vain. Votes: 0

Clichés so often befall vain people. Votes: 0

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain. Votes: 0

Who talks much, must talk in vain. Votes: 0

An old dog barks not in vain. Votes: 0

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. Votes: 0

Sweet is true love, though given in vain. Votes: 0

Look what a little vain dust we are! Votes: 0

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. Votes: 0

The vain being is the really solitary being. Votes: 0

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... Votes: 0

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain. Votes: 0

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite. Votes: 0

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain. Votes: 0

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. Votes: 0

And not a vanity is given in vain. Votes: 0

How vain, without the merit, is the name. Votes: 0

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits. Votes: 0

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain. Votes: 0

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique Votes: 0

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing. Votes: 0

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. Votes: 0

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train. Votes: 0

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. Votes: 0

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain Votes: 0

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. Votes: 0

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain. Votes: 0

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce! Votes: 0

And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Votes: 0

May I not seem to have lived in vain. Votes: 0

To so perverse a sex all grace is vain. Votes: 0

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again. Votes: 0

Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain Votes: 0

Only against death does man cry out in vain. Votes: 0

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain. Votes: 0

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker. Votes: 0

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright! Votes: 0

Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary. Votes: 0

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. Votes: 0

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues Votes: 0

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. Votes: 0

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy. Votes: 0

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. Votes: 0

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. Votes: 0

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. Votes: 0

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. Votes: 0

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain. Votes: 0

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain. Votes: 0

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. Votes: 0

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears. Votes: 0

I find that men are far more vain than women. Votes: 0

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain. Votes: 0

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain? Votes: 0

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time. Votes: 0

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me. Votes: 0

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Votes: 0

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning. Votes: 0

That power is in vain which is never in use. Votes: 0

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be. Votes: 0

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. Votes: 0

No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing. Votes: 0

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable! Votes: 0

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain. Votes: 0

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. Votes: 0

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell! Votes: 0

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. Votes: 0

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. Votes: 0

I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up. Votes: 0

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. Votes: 0

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. Votes: 0

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it. Votes: 0

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so. Votes: 0

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign. Votes: 0

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society. Votes: 0

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. Votes: 0

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door. Votes: 0

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. Votes: 0

I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain. Votes: 0

Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off. Votes: 0

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being. Votes: 0

In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land. Votes: 0

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. Votes: 0

You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you. Votes: 0

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. Votes: 0

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain. Votes: 0

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction. Votes: 0

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. Votes: 0

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. Votes: 0

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. Votes: 0

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. Votes: 0

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! Votes: 0

In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn. Votes: 0

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. Votes: 0

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich Votes: 0

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. Votes: 0

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. Votes: 0

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain. Votes: 0

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. Votes: 0

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No. Votes: 0

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. Votes: 0

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain. Votes: 0

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Votes: 0

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih. Votes: 0

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain. Votes: 0

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. Votes: 0

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain Votes: 0

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. Votes: 0

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death. Votes: 0

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck. Votes: 0

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. Votes: 0

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain. Votes: 0

And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain. Votes: 0

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action. Votes: 0

Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... Votes: 0

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. Votes: 0

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason. Votes: 0

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. Votes: 0

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought. Votes: 0

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. Votes: 0

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. Votes: 0

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum. Votes: 0

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man. Votes: 0

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain... Votes: 0

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. Votes: 0

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct. Votes: 0

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. Votes: 0

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect. Votes: 0

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model. Votes: 0

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. Votes: 0

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. Votes: 0

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere. Votes: 0

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. Votes: 0

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother. Votes: 0

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Votes: 0

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Votes: 0

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. Votes: 0

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Votes: 0

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. Votes: 0

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. Votes: 0

Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain. Votes: 0

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. Votes: 0

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it. Votes: 0

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic. Votes: 0

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. Votes: 0

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home. Votes: 0

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. Votes: 0

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. Votes: 0

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home. Votes: 0

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. Votes: 0

For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul. Votes: 0

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Votes: 0

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. Votes: 0

You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize. Votes: 0

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. Votes: 0

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. Votes: 0

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers. Votes: 0

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy. Votes: 0

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams. Votes: 0

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. Votes: 0

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! Votes: 0

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. Votes: 0

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. Votes: 0

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain. Votes: 0

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.] Votes: 0

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea Votes: 0

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. Votes: 0

In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Votes: 0

How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Votes: 0

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. Votes: 0

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Votes: 0

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. Votes: 0

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it. Votes: 0

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain. Votes: 0

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. Votes: 0

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine! Votes: 0

This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends. Votes: 0

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. Votes: 0

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another. Votes: 0

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself. Votes: 0

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Votes: 0

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain. Votes: 0

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. Votes: 0

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain. Votes: 0

It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles. Votes: 0

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach. Votes: 0

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul." Votes: 0

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. Votes: 0

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain. Votes: 0

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude. Votes: 0

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. Votes: 0

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you. Votes: 0

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. Votes: 0

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. Votes: 0

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. Votes: 0

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. Votes: 0

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain. Votes: 0

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. Votes: 0

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. Votes: 0

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. Votes: 0

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. Votes: 0

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain. Votes: 0

I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking. Votes: 0

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. Votes: 0

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain. Votes: 0

I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself. Votes: 0

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars. Votes: 0

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory. Votes: 0

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. Votes: 0

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain Votes: 0

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. Votes: 0

O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! Votes: 0

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not. Votes: 0

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again. Votes: 0

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. Votes: 0

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. Votes: 0

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. Votes: 0

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Votes: 0

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things. Votes: 0

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration. Votes: 0

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. Votes: 0

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do. Votes: 0

Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again. Votes: 0

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. Votes: 0

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. Votes: 0

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. Votes: 0

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. Votes: 0

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. Votes: 0

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. Votes: 0

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution. Votes: 0

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. Votes: 0

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. Votes: 0

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am. Votes: 0

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. Votes: 0

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. Votes: 0

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. Votes: 0

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. Votes: 0

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good . Votes: 0

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. Votes: 0

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. Votes: 0

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. Votes: 0

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. Votes: 0

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Votes: 0

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. Votes: 0

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Votes: 0

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. Votes: 0

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die. Votes: 0

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain. Votes: 0

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. Votes: 0

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another. Votes: 0

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me. Votes: 0

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain. Votes: 0

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. Votes: 0

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others Votes: 0

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.] Votes: 0

Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me. Votes: 0

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. Votes: 0

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. Votes: 0

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. Votes: 0

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual Votes: 0

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. Votes: 0

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. Votes: 0

I know I don't want to take the Lord's name in vain, and I don't want to drop any F-bombs. Votes: 0

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. Votes: 0

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. Votes: 0

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. Votes: 0

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected. Votes: 0

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Votes: 0

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it. Votes: 0

Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love. Votes: 0

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin. Votes: 0

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it. Votes: 0

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. Votes: 0

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself. Votes: 0

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. Votes: 0

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity. Votes: 0

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Votes: 0

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness. Votes: 0

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy. Votes: 0

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. Votes: 0

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. Votes: 0

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. Votes: 0

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain. Votes: 0

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God! Votes: 0

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. Votes: 0

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that. Votes: 0

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. Votes: 0

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. Votes: 0

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. Votes: 0

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. Votes: 0

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it. Votes: 0

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it. Votes: 0

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. Votes: 0

While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled. Votes: 0

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. Votes: 0

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. Votes: 0

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain. Votes: 0

The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale. Votes: 0

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Votes: 0

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life. Votes: 0

Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain. Votes: 0

It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach. Votes: 0

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse. Votes: 0

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him. Votes: 0

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Votes: 0

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain. Votes: 0

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it. Votes: 0

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. Votes: 0

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word Votes: 0

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. Votes: 0

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list. Votes: 0

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. Votes: 0

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company. Votes: 0

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. Votes: 0

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain. Votes: 0

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. Votes: 0

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean. Votes: 0

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. Votes: 0

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. Votes: 0

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. Votes: 0

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. Votes: 0

...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain. Votes: 0

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. Votes: 0

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him. Votes: 0

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. Votes: 0

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom. Votes: 0

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there. Votes: 0

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats. Votes: 0

I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. Votes: 0

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. Votes: 0

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational. Votes: 0

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. Votes: 0

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. Votes: 0

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes Votes: 0

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain. Votes: 0

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Votes: 0

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. Votes: 0

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. Votes: 0

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts. Votes: 0

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Votes: 0

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots. Votes: 0

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based. Votes: 0

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest. Votes: 0

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. Votes: 0

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. Votes: 0

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words. Votes: 0

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. Votes: 0

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Votes: 0

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. Votes: 0

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit. Votes: 0

When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed. Votes: 0

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,She shall be praised.(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version) Votes: 0

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. Votes: 0

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. Votes: 0

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. Votes: 0

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve. Votes: 0

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain. Votes: 0

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason. Votes: 0

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain. Votes: 0

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men. Votes: 0

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. Votes: 0

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it. Votes: 0

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition. Votes: 0

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. Votes: 0

The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there. Votes: 0

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually Votes: 0

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. Votes: 0

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix. Votes: 0

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. Votes: 0

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. Votes: 0

One of the surest roads to mediocrity, is to be overly concerned with pleasing others. It is, in the long run, a vain pursuit. Votes: 0

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain. Votes: 0

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. Votes: 0

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive. Votes: 0

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them. Votes: 0

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. Votes: 0

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. Votes: 0

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. Votes: 0

True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain. Votes: 0

It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways. Votes: 0

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay. Votes: 0

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain. Votes: 0

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect. Votes: 0

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor? Votes: 0

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions. Votes: 0

When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish! Votes: 0

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. Votes: 0

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. Votes: 0

Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others. Votes: 0

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself. Votes: 0

Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves. Votes: 0

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain Votes: 0

Oh no, no," said the little fly; "to ask me is in vain,For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again. Votes: 0

Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain. Votes: 0

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are. Votes: 0

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life. Votes: 0

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. Votes: 0

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. Votes: 0

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. Votes: 0

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city, the guard keeps watch in vain. Votes: 0

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life. Votes: 0

When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce. Votes: 0

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty. Votes: 0

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal. Votes: 0

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. Votes: 0

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain. Votes: 0

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain. Votes: 0

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise. Votes: 0

It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged. Votes: 0

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. Votes: 0

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain. Votes: 0

We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different. Votes: 0

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May. Votes: 0

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. Votes: 0

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. Votes: 0

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud Votes: 0

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 by. Votes: 0

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over. Votes: 0

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe. Votes: 0

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher Votes: 0

I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy. Votes: 0

I'm not too vain - I sometimes take pride in my appearance, but I stick to the rule never to spend longer than a girl getting ready. Votes: 0

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave. Votes: 0

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. Votes: 0

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it. Votes: 0

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her. Votes: 0

My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am. Votes: 0

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true! Votes: 0

Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet. Votes: 0

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving. Votes: 0

You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic. Votes: 0

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer. Votes: 0

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. Votes: 0

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end! Votes: 0