I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
James Lee Burke

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
Saul Bellow

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
Danny Glover

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
Ben Affleck

If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
Charles Eliot Norton

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
Mary Astell

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.
Dennis Chavez

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

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph Addison

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
Frederick William Robertson

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Alexander Smith

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
Phaedrus

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.
John Strachan

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.
James McHenry

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas Carlyle

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
Frances Wright

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Aesop