vain Quotes

“Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.”

“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.”

“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”

“I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.”

“It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”

“Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.”

“I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.”

“Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”

“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.”

“In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.”