vain

s. boş, faydasız

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
Mary Chesnut

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
Wallace Shawn

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John Ruskin

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Kate Moss

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 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

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 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

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

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

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.

78 c?mle

« Önceki 123 4 Sonraki »

Cümle Sözlük, bir Onur-Hoca projesidir.