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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
— Charlotte Bronte
Daughter of wheat and grain, Betrothed to soil and stain, Your lifeblood drips, The scales tip, But will it be in vain?
— Laura Thalassa
Do not have any other loves before me in your heart. Do not take my name in vain. Do not kill me. Observe me, and keep me holy.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Such is the passing that you must leave,All men must die, and it is vain to grieve. — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
It's a funny thing about suspicions, Mr. Wright. All too often, they're just vain hopes in disguise.
— Tessa Dare
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.
— Steven Weinberg
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
— Marianne Moore
A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
— Cyril Connolly
It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glassBut my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint
Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain — Muhammad Iqbal
Our life must once have end; in vain we flyFrom following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die. — Lucretius
I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.
— Alessandra Ambrosio
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
— Horace
Our reason tries in vain to show them to us; we refuse to see them till we find them in the way of our interests." Prince
— Andrew Lang
The midnight hours were her time to be selfish and vain
— Truman Capote
They never miss an opportunity to lord over the others. Either they're very vain or very aware. To look powerful is to be powerful.
— Victoria Aveyard
Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.
— Sarah Addison Allen
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...
— Michael Moorcock
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
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
— Charles Caleb Colton
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
— James Russell Lowell
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.
— Arthur Golden
Nothing is ever lost, nor broken in vain.It is the tapestry of life, a picture that has been framed. — Natalie Ducey
There is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.
— Rosalie Bertell
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
— Antonio Porchia
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain ...
— Edmond Rostand
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
— Charles Dickens
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
— James M. Barrie
Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.
— Ross Macdonald
Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling ... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!
— Israelmore Ayivor
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
— Henry David Thoreau
We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.
— Alain De Botton
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
— Michel Foucault
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
— Jean De La Bruyere
In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.
— Alfred Austin
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
— Michel De Montaigne
When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.
— Richard Halverson
The More I Rest The More I Go In VAIN
— William Shakespeare
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
— William Ellery Channing
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.
— Warren Eyster
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
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
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
— Friedrich Schiller
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
— Henry David Thoreau
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
— Andre Breton
It is all in vain; the torture of the unfulfilled law cannot be overcome.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
— Thomas Gray
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
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
— William Penn
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
— William Shakespeare
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
— Abraham Lincoln
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
— Khalil Gibran
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
— Virginia Woolf
I'm not vain, I'm insecure.
— Mariah Carey
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
— Robert Southey
Fortune, how fickle and how vain thou art,
— Patrick Branwell Bronte
In vain sedate reflections we would makeWhen half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. — Alexander Pope
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
— Bodhidharma
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
— William Shakespeare
Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.
— Mark Helprin
It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.
— Pere La Combe
I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
— Abbey Clancy