Vain Quotes

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

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

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

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

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

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

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.

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.

Emperors are vain and useless things.

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

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

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

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

I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

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

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

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

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.

The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.

A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before?

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

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

Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.

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

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

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.

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.

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