"If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
or cool one Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
into his Nest again,
I shall not live in vain." »Emily Dickinson
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"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
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"How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it." »Stobaeus
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"With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." »Friedrich von Schiller
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"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." »Henry David Thoreau
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"With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain." »Friedrich von Schiller
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"Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice." »Matthew Henry
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"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." »Demosthenes
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." »Emily Dickinson
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"You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich." »Lavater
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"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
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"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them." »Anatole France
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"I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain." »Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85
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"Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry." »Martin Luther
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"A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain." »Jessamyn West
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"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
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"Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"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
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"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, Jane Eyre, 1847
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"He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others." »Hindoo Maxim
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"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
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"Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream." »George Linley
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"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
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"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, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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"It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain." »Doris Fleeson
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"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
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"Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
(Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens)" »Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations
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"Plans that are wise and prudent in themselves are rendered vain when the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence." »Guicciardini
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"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
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