#vain

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#poor #prayed #rain #sailors #shepherds

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society. ↗

— Gideon Welles

#government #society #vain #well-balanced #without

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#bad men #believe #doing #good #indulge

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#complete #created #eternal #foolishness #great

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. ↗

— Danny Glover

#believe #changes #i #involvement #vain

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#happen #i #i believe #reason #things

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#life #literature #looking #looks #loudly

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#everything #instead #satisfying #spirit #tortures

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#excellent #follow #indeed #modest #none

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#cliched #frailties #good #greater #human