186 Quotations with Vain.
- 121. Charlotte Bronte: Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst aw ...
- 122. Lord Byron: Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in ...
- 123. Lord Alfred Tennyson: Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pai ...
- 124. George Santayana: The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; s ...
- 125. W. Somerset Maugham: The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and s ...
- 126. John Ruskin: The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish str ...
- 127. John Ruskin: The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish str ...
- 128. Charles Caleb Colton: The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is ...
- 129. Florence Nightingale: The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for th ...
- 130. Reinhold Niebuhr: The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self m ...
- 131. Michelangelo: The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide ...
- 132. Samuel Johnson: The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud ag ...
- 133. Thomas Traherne: The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is it ...
- 134. Margaret Witter Fuller: There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all t ...
- 135. Edward Hoagland: There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out ...
- 136. Percy Bysshe Shelley: There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human ...
- 137. Herbert Butterfield: Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner ...
- 138. Leszczynski Stanislaus: To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
- 139. Henry Drummond: To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the ...
- 140. Elihu Root: To have built oneself into the structure of undying institutions, to have aided ...
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