If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. Votes: 4
Francois de La RochefoucauldBeauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Votes: 4
Alexander PopeLive for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again. Votes: 4
Bob MarleySweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. Votes: 4
Alfred Lord TennysonWe are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. Votes: 4
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachHow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Votes: 4
Henry David ThoreauAll writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Votes: 4
George OrwellVain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! Votes: 3
Abraham CowleyVain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind. Votes: 3
Oliver GoldsmithDo not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. Votes: 2
Abu BakrNo great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Votes: 2
Thomas CarlyleOnly vain people wage war against the vanity of others. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonPolite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign. Votes: 0
Edward YoungIt is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society. Votes: 0
Gideon WellesWe gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. Votes: 0
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonEarnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonI'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. Votes: 0
Danny GloverIn vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction. Votes: 0
Robert HerrickEverything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. Votes: 0
Johann Georg HamannThe Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonVirtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! Votes: 0
Marcus Junius Brutus the YoungerAll affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterNot from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. Votes: 0
Robin IncePrayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWho thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... Votes: 0
John DrydenOne whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareTo learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. Votes: 0
Confucius[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought. Votes: 0
Edward GibbonBlot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusEven our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaA modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. Votes: 0
Mary WollstonecraftIf a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. Votes: 0
Edmund SpenserOften the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Votes: 0
C.G. JungOften the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Votes: 0
Carl JungThese are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. Votes: 0
John DrydenIn vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Votes: 0
James McHenryLiberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. Votes: 0
John F. KennedyThe nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithWithout the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain. Votes: 0
John AdamsAll attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. Votes: 0
John OwenOur repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. Votes: 0
William HazlittIt is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. Votes: 0
John Frederick BoyesIt is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeFor him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Votes: 0
Charles DickensThe joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. Votes: 0
Lena DunhamYou will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize. Votes: 0
Tim KaineIt is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. Votes: 0
Jack KerouacWhen intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers. Votes: 0
StendhalBe attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergFor this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams. Votes: 0
SophoclesVanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. Votes: 0
Alfred de MussetTo teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! Votes: 0
Alexander PopeAnything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. Votes: 0
Martin LutherPraise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. Votes: 0
Francis BaconThe words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain. Votes: 0
EpicurusI have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.] Votes: 0
PlautusThe passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. Votes: 0
Francois FenelonIn vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeHow foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Votes: 0
Hermann HesseIt's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. Votes: 0
James CookA religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Votes: 0
Jessamyn WestIt is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauTo be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it. Votes: 0
Stanisław I LeszczyńskiIf a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain. Votes: 0
Hugh MartinThis life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. Votes: 0
Isaac of NinevehTo dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine! Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThis is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends. Votes: 0
Samuel DanielTis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThe suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Votes: 0
Francis QuarlesSow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain. Votes: 0
Horatius BonarThe hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. Votes: 0
William Ellery ChanningPhilosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauIt is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles. Votes: 0
George WashingtonBeauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul." Votes: 0
Alexander PopeIt is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereIf free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain. Votes: 0
John Shaw BillingsIt is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. Votes: 0
Joshua ReynoldsTo hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonA man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersFool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeIt is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareEvils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinIt is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. Votes: 0
Mary WollstonecraftOdor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. Votes: 0
William Butler YeatsDiscourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalOf all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain. Votes: 0
George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneI have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking. Votes: 0
Ranbir KapoorAffliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. Votes: 0
Robert SoutheyRoll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain. Votes: 0
Herman MelvilleI'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself. Votes: 0
Alessandra AmbrosioIf a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory. Votes: 0
PoemenBe thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsFew things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain Votes: 0
Lord ByronWordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. Votes: 0
Julio CortazarO strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! Votes: 0
Matthew ArnoldTo ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again. Votes: 0
Mary HowittMen are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. Votes: 0
James Anthony FroudeIt would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. Votes: 0
Joseph JoubertAll is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. Votes: 0
Jerome K. JeromeNature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Votes: 0
Immanuel KantAll Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration. Votes: 0
Nicholas CulpeperO! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do. Votes: 0
Ben JonsonLet not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again. Votes: 0
Abdul KalamIt is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. Votes: 0
John LockeI'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. Votes: 0
Grace JonesFeeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. Votes: 0
Carlos CastanedaTrue, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareHe who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. Votes: 0
David HilbertNor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. Votes: 0
HoraceAn honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. Votes: 0
William HazlittWhere grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeDo what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. Votes: 0
William PennNothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Votes: 0
Charles DickensSpangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. Votes: 0
Walter ScottOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die. Votes: 0
LucretiusI was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain. Votes: 0
Evangeline LillyIt is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Cady StantonIf someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me. Votes: 0
Karl KrausChrist could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me. Votes: 0
Angelus SilesiusMen are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. Votes: 0
Irvin S. CobbI 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
Larry the Cable GuyAh, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. Votes: 0
Anacreonif a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it. Votes: 0
Stellan SkarsgardLet not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love. Votes: 0
Oprah WinfreyI still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin. Votes: 0
Sophia LorenI can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it. Votes: 0
Bilawal Bhutto ZardariIt is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. Votes: 0
AesopIt is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. Votes: 0
George MacDonaldThou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Votes: 0
AristotleAn appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. Votes: 0
Frederick RolfeOne of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonA vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereMen do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain. Votes: 0
Michelle PfeifferIt is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. Votes: 0
Theodore ParkerLet us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word Votes: 0
Ahmed Ben BellaI am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. Votes: 0
Matthew McConaugheyI'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list. Votes: 0
Gwen StefaniThou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. Votes: 0
George LinleyWe never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. Votes: 0
Roger L'EstrangeI 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
Bob HopeLet me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats. Votes: 0
Ze FrankAnd if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain. Votes: 0
Antonio Porchia