Vain Quotes

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

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

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

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.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.