It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.
William of Occam

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
Gideon Welles

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte

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.
Jacob Bronowski

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
Bodhidharma

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!
Dorothy Stratten

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Leonhard Euler

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.
Diane Arbus

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
Helena Rubinstein

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
John Ruskin

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
William Gilmore Simms

Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Andre Breton