Vain Quotes - Page 2

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

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

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

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

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

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

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Nature does nothing in vain.

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

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

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

Clichés so often befall vain people.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

I have been vain since birth.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

An old dog barks not in vain.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.