“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue;… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. — Maggie Stiefvater 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
Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood,… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a… — Charlie Munger 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