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There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.
— Gautama Buddha
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
— John Lubbock
Do not spend your time on vain things
— Sunday Adelaja
Do not be angry with the audacity of a desperate and drowning man for making a last effort to save himself from perdition.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
— Blaise Pascal
I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.
— Clare Balding
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
She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
— Lord Byron
Never quit after a bad day
— Nastia Liukin
When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish!
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.
— Thomas Jefferson
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
— John Webster
I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.
— Matthew McConaughey
On Writing About Nora HawksI write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. — Dennis R. Miller
I fail too much to be good as a real person, being anonymous makes me less real.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
— Ben Jonson
It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.
— Pere La Combe
No matter what you do, if your heart is ever true,And his heart was true to Poll. — Francis Cowley Burnand
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
— Augustus Hare
A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is a capricious bussines.
— Stephen King
If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.
— Poemen
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
— Blaise Pascal
I love what's left after love has been tested.
— Stephen Dunn
Emperors are vain and useless things.
— Scott Westerfeld
Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ...
— Denise Levertov
But it left something with him; as long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
— Leslie Marmon Silko
He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain.
— Heather O'Neill
Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.
— Anthony Liccione
