Vain Quotes

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Peace Vain Ourselves Seek Outward Within Sources
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. Aesop
Vain Our Strive Well Pray Prayers Heard Expect
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. Michelangelo
Best World Worth Value Promises Become Vain Something Self Part Most Safest Course Confide Phantoms
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
Silence Own Every Vain Too Books Distracted Seeking Write Emptiness Dodging His Being After Elevation
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain. Walter Winchell
Good Men Believe Vain Others Worse Bad Must Bad Men Since Indulge Make Doing Than Mankind Teach Views
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Aristotle
Life Rest Every Vain Thou Though Find Wilt Thy Were Fancy Act Last
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
Life God Heart Will Believe Vain Guard Seem Himself Should
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. George Eliot
Wisdom Laughter Half Vain Folly Hears Applause
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. Henry Van Dyke
Life Man Sadness Secular Half Every Society Vain Critic Unrest Bound Ideas Modern Modern Society Dismal Profane Every Man
In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. James McHenry
Bible Vain Increase Our Draw Laws Institutions Around Without
I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide. Padma Lakshmi
Character Me You Hide Better Naked Clothes Vain Way Immediately Adjectives Put Raw Like Any Just Mean
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. Peter Ustinov
Vain Being Being Unique Unique Conscious
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. Thomas Carlyle
Politics Hope Happy People Vain Make
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain. A. A. Milne
Writing Vain Gave Punch Books Once Had Always Up Escape Children Wanted Them
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
Man Equality Vain Unless Brothers He His Labors Committed Mankind Then Belief
We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain. Adoniram Judson
God Will Shine Sit Thanks Hell Down Vain Our Possessed We Cannot Ourselves Immortal See Perdition Like Without Souls Dear Still Doing Go Blood Very Forever Labors Heaven Burn Cannot Them Flesh Utmost Save
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. Aeschylus
Single Vain Though Hasten Cleanse Course Hand Blood Polluted Streams Flow
Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid. Alex Pareene
Stupid Politicians Vain Most Them Many
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope
Soul Eyes Vain Strike Sight Pretty Charms Wins Beauties Merit Roll May
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful. Andrew Motion
Work Great Me People Three Thinking Vain Settle Would Poems Poets Written Feel Most Well Read Were Handful Expect Die After Might Us Body Whole Lived
Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain. Anthony Edwards
Cover-Up Try Hair Vain Too Bathe Worry Vanity About Point Beyond Make Makeup Cover Pimples Up Artist Nose Ask Why
As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out. Anthony McCarten
You Become Older Vain Out Eyesight Slowly Deteriorate More Looks Balances Get Your
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's 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
Hope Me Relationship Woman Feeling Cynical Vain Type Entertain Sexually One-Night One-Night Stands Something Guy Lead Feel Empty Leaves Very May Who Stands Fun Even Need
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
Love Man Feeling Matters Live Vain Secretly Those Ourselves Possibly Must Seemingly Something Conceal Without Always Cannot Moment Found
A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself. Brian Sutton-Smith
Character Too Much Believe Vain Too Willful Weakness Willingness About More Consumerism Instead Like Involves Venture Sound Passionate Itself Often Human Being Which Fantasy Much Theories Many Even Play
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Me History Man Woman Living Vain Extremely Cities Madrid See Haunting Barcelona Organisms Creatures Ever Living Creatures Present
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