Vainyour Quotes & Sayings

Third time is the charm — Fall Out Boy

Don't do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong. — Dale Carnegie

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet . — Marcus Aurelius

...only when a man dies can his life acquire a beginning, middle, and an end: up until then we are constantly unfinished, even the midpoint cannot be located. So only the final word finds the middle word and this, in a way becomes a verse--one's death explains oneself. — Colum McCann

Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. — Heinz Hopf

BThere is, indeed, nothing that man's nature seeks more eagerly than to be flattered. — John Calvin

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance. — Samuel Richardson

Laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex. — Patricia Gaffney

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities. — Friedrich Nietzsche