Quotes of Vain - somelinesforyou

“ The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?". ”

- Brian Tracy

“ Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. ”

- Bible

“ There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. ”

- George Santayana

“ He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness — though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. ”

- Julian Barnes

“ It is useless to meet revenge with revenge. It will heal nothing. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how.". ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. ”

- Rosalia Castro

“ I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. ”

- Alan Alda

“ If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Wealth is useless on the day of wrath, but virtue saves from death. ”

- Bible

“ Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming. But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. ”

- Adelaide Proctor

“ It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe — you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak. ”

- John LeCarre

“ Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped. ”

- Mohamad Mahathir

“ I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless. ”

- Billy Connolly

“ The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities. ”

- Cesare Pavese

“ The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. ”

- John Ruskin

“ The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ”

- Florence Nightingale

“ The tear of sympathy never falls in vain; it waters and fertilizes the soil of the most sterile heart and causes it to flourish with the beautiful flowers of gratitude and love. ”

- Eliza Cook
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