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.
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.
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.
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.
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
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.
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.
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.