Vices Quotes · Page 12

The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay…

— Aldo Leopold

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I travel a lot on foreign policy, as you know. I'm in Europe a lot. I travelled over a million miles as…

— Joe Biden

the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in…

— Gloria Steinem

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

— Holbrook Jackson

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

— Lyman Beecher

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

— D. Todd Christofferson

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

— Alexander Pope

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

— Honore de Balzac

Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa.…

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire,(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on…

— John N. Gray

Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy…

— Lewis M. Branscomb

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to…

— John McCain

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

— Edward Gibbon

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war…

— Jay Leno

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest…

— Will Rogers

The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish…

— Wally Olins

My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson…

— Al Sharpton

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals…

— Gertrude Stein

Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president,…

— Oliver Stone