Vain

Famous quotes containing the word vain:

“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
—Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

“Your courteous lights in vain you waste,
Since Juliana here is come,
For she my mind hath so displaced
That I shall never find my home.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

“If, during his daily walk, he met any children flying kites, playing marbles, or whirling peg tops, he would buy the toys from them and exhort them not to gamble or indulge in vain sport.”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)