No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes froma weak hand and is imperfectly formed, it inspires the ethical spirit to constantly renewed creation.
I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.
Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. . . . Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
I’m vain because I’m imperfect.