Vain Quotes
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.
We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.
But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?
I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.
If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.
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.
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!
For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.
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.
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.