Top Vain Quotes
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
Ben Affleck
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau
I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Kate Moss
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
Dave Pelzer
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It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
Gideon Welles 
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Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
William Gilmore Simms
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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.
James McHenry
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
Galen Rowell
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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Theodor Adorno
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