Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing.… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's… — Carrot Top Copy Share Image
Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What I liked so much while shooting [a movie], I might not like anymore when I see it or vice versa. The… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“We are the collective creator of our own agony. It is time for a re-awakening of consciousness when we recognize the best… — Laurence Overmire 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
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
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto,… — William Falconer Copy Share Image