Vain
Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
Showy; ostentatious.
Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.
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Vain Quotations
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran
Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
Vain Translations
vain in Afrikaans is vrugteloos
vain in Dutch is vergeefs, ijdel, nutteloos
vain in Finnish is turha
vain in French is vain, vaniteux
vain in German is eitel, vergeblich, vergeblich, Eitel
vain in Italian is vano
vain in Latin is inanis, irritus, leviculus
vain in Spanish is vano
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