Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I… — Cara Castronuova Copy Share Image
Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon… — Napoleon III Copy Share Image
...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of… — William J Federer Copy Share Image
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President" "Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including vice president, that I am more proud to wear than that of… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, desperately,… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice, — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image