#vain

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

#canst #come #fate #life #living

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

#biggest #biggest mistakes #cling #closer #film

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so. ↗

— Helena Rubinstein

#just #men #more #sometimes #vain

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. ↗

— John Ruskin

#diminishing #done #heretofore #i #landscape