There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs… — David Hume 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
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
Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Love and ego cannot go together. Knowledge and ego go together perfectly well, but love and ego cannot go together, not at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs- bank vice presidents, insurance salesmen,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice… — Susan Davis 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
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny,… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in… — Louis XVI of France Copy Share Image
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Last night's vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin drew much higher ratings than the presidential debate. Did you know… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors… — Roy Keane Copy Share Image
As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
