Top 1200 Vain Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

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.

Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, hélas, I may no more. The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind. Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind. Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, As well as I may spend his time in vain. And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written, her fair neck round about: Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

We've got ourselves into a very vain state of society and there's more important things.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

I dream of living off the land completely - in vain, because the monkeys eat everything.

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!