We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a… — Allen Steele Copy Share Image
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I would say, when Paul Ryan was running for vice president last time, they lost eight of the nine swing states, and… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare… — John Gabriel Stedman Copy Share Image
Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a… — Jared Sparks Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do… — Mary Cheney Copy Share Image
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice. — Horace Copy Share Image
“True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro, — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What… — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones. — Molière Copy Share Image
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