“When I saw that rage was vainAnd to sulk would nothing gain,Turning many a trick and wileI began to soothe and smile.”
William Blake
“Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles”
“She (Wiles) has absolutely changed our lives.”
Jan Murphy
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
William Shakespeare
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau
“And they who do not bear witness to what is false, and when they pass by what is vain, they pass by nobly.”
quran
“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
Bible