Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“They think one enjoys oneself by an endless procession of new vices. For myself I prefer to have one or two vices,… — Alex Beecroft Copy Share Image
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all! — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land. — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old… — John Owen Copy Share Image
As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point.… — John Neff Copy Share Image
Quebec's distinct character makes Canada an even better country, and vice versa: being in Canada makes Quebec a better place too. — Philippe Couillard Copy Share Image
I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as… — Horace Copy Share Image
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee. — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
There are no more vices left - I don't drink or smoke and at a party, after a while, I am lost.… — Vikram Bhatt Copy Share Image
How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States.… — Eleanor Mondale Copy Share Image
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years… — Ron White Copy Share Image
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
