Quotes by Vain It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over. Hosea Ballou foundation vain building Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. Hosea Ballou repose vain elsewhere The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain. Herman Melville vain terror faith What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they. Friedrich Nietzsche vain ends spirit No endeavour is in vain; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow endeavour rewards vain Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. Horace cradle graves vain In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. Horace embrace vain vices Not vain the weakest, if their force unite. Homer vain unity force This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. Isaac of Nineveh repentance vain waste Do not waste this life in vain pursuits. Isaac of Nineveh this-life vain waste you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you. J. E. Buckrose done-with-you vain may Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum. Jacques Maritain minimum vain men If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality. Henry David Thoreau vain made reality It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough. James Russell Lowell vain broken purpose In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. James Russell Lowell fudge vain stealing 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. Jane Fonda vain arms flesh It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence. Jawaharlal Nehru vain mystery truth All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. Jerome K. Jerome vanity vain men I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy. Jo Brand mackerel vain healthy Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. Johann Georg Hamann calming vain spirit «1234567891011»