Vain Quotes

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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

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

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.

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

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

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

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

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

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

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

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

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 not carry with her the revelations of God.

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.

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

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

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

Look what a little vain dust we are!

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

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

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

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

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

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

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

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

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

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

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

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!

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

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

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

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

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

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Love, so many People use your Name in vain.

If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.

I find that men are far more vain than women.

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

There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at 33 is strange now, but let's not be too high-minded about that.