vain

s. boş, faydasız

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

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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

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

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

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

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise Pascal

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
Nicholas Culpeper

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Augustus Hare

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

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

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

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

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
William Law

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Johann G. Hamann

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

And in vain are the protests of the 750 other passengers across Switzerland receiving similar fines every single day.

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

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton

78 c?mle

« Önceki 1 234 Sonraki »

Cümle Sözlük, bir Onur-Hoca projesidir.