I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul,… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Impeach the President and the Vice President, they are traitors to America, and so are all of their supporters. Impeach! Anyone in… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
[If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves,… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
While CNN has hired a fleet of new political reporters to beef up its coverage of these elections [2016], it also maintains… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate… — David Gregory Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In China, I helped introduce UNEP's campaign to reduce food waste on World Environment Day. The government took notice of food waste… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image