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Vagabonds . Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes us respectable. {Alexander Smith.}
Vain . A dog that bites does not bark in vain. - Can che morde non abbaia in vano {Italian. Proverb.}
Vain . A great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain. - Magnus sine viribus ignis / Incassum furit {Virgil.}
Vain . As for talkers and futile persons, they are commonly vain and credulous withal. {Bacon.}
Vain . Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; / {Pope.}
Vain . Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. {Shakespeare.}
Vain . Destroy his fib or sophistryin vain! / The {Pope.}
Vain . Do not lose the present in vain perplexities {Sir T. Martin.}
Vain . Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain. {Bible.}
Vain . Excess in apparel is costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. {Wm. Penn.}
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