Vain Quotes
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.
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.
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.
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
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He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
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.
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
