Vain Quotes
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.
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Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
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Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.
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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.
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I'm not vain, I'm insecure.
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But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?
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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
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Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
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It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
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Christ is a rock in a weary land, a covert from the tempest of Divine justice, receiving through the ages the snows of Divine mercy, and melting them for the green pastures and still waters of God's peaceful flock — a rock against which wicked men and devils have breathed their empty curses in vain, for eighteen hundred years.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
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Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
