Vain Quotes - Page 3

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.