Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin Copy Share Image
The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them. — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't… — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa. — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do?… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee,… — William Law Copy Share Image
Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find,… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for… — Alysia Reiner Copy Share Image
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others. — William Henry Irwin Copy Share Image
Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa. — Jan Theuninck Copy Share Image
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride,… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
![“As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters”; “[the barbarians’] poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the…” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0d0/edward-gibbon-710_applause_as-long-as-mankind-shall-continue-to-bes_1024385.jpg)
