#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

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#contend #gods #stupidity #themselves #vain

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#struggle #stupidity #themselves #vain

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. ↗

— Walter Scott

#autumn #blossoms #borne #fruit #look

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#been #believe #concerning #destiny #earth

I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that. ↗

— Bill Skarsgard

#always #artistic #fall #got #i

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it. ↗

— George A. Smith

#god #guard #heart #himself #life