Vain Quotes

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

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

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

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

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

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

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

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

If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.