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The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
Only against death does man cry out in vain.
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
This is that rest this vain world lends,
To end in death that all things ends.
It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.
You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.
Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.)
[Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
If I'm not representing the people with my music for the goodwill of the Creator, it's all in vain at the end of the day.
I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.
[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.
I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
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.
Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.
We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.
In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.
Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
