Vain Quotes

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

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

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

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

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

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.

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

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

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

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

I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.

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

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Nature does nothing in vain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clichés so often befall vain people.

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

Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

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.

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

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

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

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

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

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

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

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

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

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

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

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

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.