An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
I have to be out there to sell these fights; it's not because I really enjoy getting made up and going to work every day. It's cool, it's an awesome job, but it's still a job. I'm doing it because it helps me make a living and not because I'm so extremely vain that I want to see my face everywhere.
Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
It's so rare, actors who are not vain.
I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
