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Vain Quotes
You are not unworthy of the men who entered the ranks of a Macedonian phalanx, and who contended not in vain with the proud conquerors of Asia. - Giuseppe Garibaldi Quotes
If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime. - Charles Eliot Norton Quotes
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it. - Sophocles Quotes
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. - Jeremy Bentham Quotes
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. - Galen Rowell Quotes
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. - John Ruskin Quotes
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. - Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. - Dwight D Eisenhower Quotes
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. - Thomas Carlyle Quotes
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we dont care for. - Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach Quotes
In other words, we must move beyond our own egocentric and vain rituals in order to discover the truly spiritual possibilities of life. - Armstrong Williams Quotes
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. - Henry David Thoreau Quotes
If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it. - George A Smith Quotes
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. - Charlotte Bronte Quotes
To be a mans own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybodys. - William Penn Quotes
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. - Andre Breton Quotes
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. - Max Beerbohm Quotes
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. - John Strachan Quotes
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T S Eliot Quotes
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. - Mika Waltari Quotes
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in ones self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. - Michelangelo Quotes
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. - Alexander Pope Quotes
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. - Sir Francis Bacon Quotes
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. - Blaise Pascal Quotes
Im not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. Its not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. - Ben Affleck Quotes
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. - George Eliot Quotes
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. - Adam Clayton Quotes
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. - Charlotte Bronte Quotes
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. - Wallace Shawn Quotes
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