A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.

God would never make man in his image,because that would then make him as vain as what man is.

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

Depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.

Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,'She is as vain as a man,' and they will have perfect reason. The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascinations, as any coquette in the world.

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

If we don’t do anything to change the lives of our people and our country, we live a vain life.