186 Quotations with Vain.
- 41. Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you oug ...

- 42. H.L. Mencken: All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the m ...

- 43. Jessamyn West: A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him i ...

- 44. Roger L'Estrange: We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of i ...

- 45. Ronald Reagan: The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives ...

- 46. Aesop: A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bun ...

- 47. Robert Louis Stevenson: A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but t ...

- 48. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain else where.

- 49. Jean De La Bruyere: A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not ...

- 50. George D. Prentice: A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily l ...

- 51. Robert Southey: Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom ...

- 52. Friedrich Nietzsche: Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

- 53. Johann Kaspar Lavater: All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.

- 54. George Bernard Shaw: All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tel ...

- 55. George Orwell: All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives ...

- 56. William Hazlitt: An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order ...

- 57. Alexander Pope: Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit ...

- 58. William Shakespeare: Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly, a ...

- 59. Helen Keller: Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the ...

- 60. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, ...

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