Top 1200 Vain Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Love, so many People use your Name in vain.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.

Vanity takes a lot of work. I'm too lazy to be vain.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

I'm not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I'm not that vain.

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.

I find that men are far more vain than women.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.