The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.
Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.
If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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".
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.
I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.
I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.