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Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.
— Robert Burns
It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.
— Charles Dickens
Daughter of wheat and grain, Betrothed to soil and stain, Your lifeblood drips, The scales tip, But will it be in vain?
— Laura Thalassa
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
— Hermann Von Helmholtz
We seek abroad what is missing in our own lives, what we hunger for in vain at home. (Alain de Botton)
— Scott Driscoll
It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary,Let not our naive labours have been in vain! — Derek Mahon
Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Dressing for success may sound intimidating, expensive, and a bit vain; however, keep in mind that your presentation creates credibility.
— Michelle Moore
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Do not think the time and resources you spend on training your workers are in vain.
— Sunday Adelaja
Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.
— Brad Alan Lewis
How happy the lover,How easy his chain,
How pleasing his pain,
How sweet to discover
He sighs not in vain. — John Dryden
No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.
— Steven Weinberg
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.
— Nigel Hamilton
Nature has made nothing in vain.
— Delarivier Manley
those that have received Christ must by faith live upon him, and not receive his grace in vain.
— Matthew Henry
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
— Kurt Vonnegut
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends, but it has always been in vain.
— Emile Gaboriau
We are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labor to defend it.
— Teresa Of Avila
One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.
— Christopher Titus
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
— Bodhidharma
Jacinta knew from the start that this city was a woman, cruel and vain; she learned to fear her and never look her in the eye.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Against one perfect moment, the centuries beat in vain.
— Terry Pratchett
In vain sedate reflections we would makeWhen half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. — Alexander Pope
But I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed. Neither do I talk in vain.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!
— Robert Burns
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
— Abraham Lincoln
Was it Gorky who said: If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
— Elie Wiesel
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea
— J.R.R. Tolkien
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...
— Assegid Habtewold
Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet
— Tatsumi Hijikata
This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.
— Isaac Of Nineveh
Then I'll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.
— Erle Stanley Gardner
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
— Isaac Newton
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.
— Nicholas Hoult
The More I Rest The More I Go In VAIN
— William Shakespeare
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
— Anacreon
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
— William Shakespeare
And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
— Lady Hester Stanhope
It is in vain when conscience is aroused to fly to feelings and evidences for comfort;
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Laws without morals are in vain.
— Benjamin Franklin
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.
— Arthur Lynch
and if you're uncertain you'll crease my will in vain and leave behind a crumpled ball
— Erin A. Thomas
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
— John Lancaster Spalding
All's fair in love and war'. I could hear the vain grin on his lip as he recited the idiom.
— Nely Cab
Use a gun that works every time. As George Washington said, 'All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.
— Nelson DeMille
You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were.
— Frank Herbert
I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
— Saul Bellow
How can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these thoughts in vain?
— Vladimir Nabokov
Happiness is the certainty that our life is not going in vain.
— Fernando Sabino
It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment - but our Rock attends to our cries.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
But do not search for the Gods in vain when it is your own heart and mind that can find the way.
— Vasileios Kalampakas
Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.
— Oprah Winfrey
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
— Lyman Abbott
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
— Thomas A Kempis
The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.
— Jude Morgan
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
— Thomas Gray
Nature does nothing in vain.
— Aristotle.
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
— William Shakespeare
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
— Charles Fenno Hoffman
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The prayers of Christians are in vain if they do not plan any corresponding actions
— Sunday Adelaja
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
— Christopher Wesley
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
— Blaise Pascal
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.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
No wonder nothing had worked. No one else was him.
— Kristan Higgins
