Vain Quotes

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.

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

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.