Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Plaxico Burress

The regular season is here now so you don't have time to worry about none of that anyway, ... You've just got to go out and you've got to make it right. You can't sit back and say 'Oh, we've got time.'

Kenny Perry

We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

John Cain

As recently as three years ago, none of this development was here.

Ahmed Ali

accomplishments, and at the same time, none of the competitors is stronger than him.

Nicholas Scoppetta

There were 22 interventions during that little girl's six years of life, and none of it prevented her death. I think the system was not functioning in those days.

Susan Jones

It's a little ironic. But none of us are impervious.

Dean Cox

It's a year none of us want to repeat.

Dave Barry

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Alan Coren

The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Charles Bukowski

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Edward Abbey

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Ben Horowitz

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

Dominique de Villepin

Accusations are useless.

Jose Mujica

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

Abu Bakr

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Aldo Leopold

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

Thomas Gray

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Swami Vivekananda

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Mark Twain

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

Mel Gibson

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.