| "Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin |
| "How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it." »Stobaeus |
| "With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." »Friedrich von Schiller |
| "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." »Demosthenes |
| "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." »Emily Dickinson |
| "Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice." »Matthew Henry |
| "Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed." »Leo C. Rosten |
| "A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain." »Jessamyn West |
| "If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson |
| "Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry." »Martin Luther |
| "You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "It is in 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 Bronte |
| "It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain." »Doris Fleeson |
| "It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world." »John B. Gough |
| "One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." »Kurt Vonnegut |
| "Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality." »Adam Clayton Jr. Powell |
| "The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain." »Thomas Traherne |
| "Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream." »George Linley |
| "It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep." »Psalm 1272 Bible |
| "Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Because of Christ's resurrection--and His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Him--we are the most fortunate, the most blest people on the planet Our faith is effective, we are not in our sins, our departed loved ones are with the Lord, and the labor we do for Him is not in vain." »Bob Wilkin |
| "No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain." »Lyster |
| "Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain." »John Dryden |
| "Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship." »Samuel Johnson |
| "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 Savage Landor |
| "Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it." »Sophocles |
| "Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute." »William Hazlitt |
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