.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image
We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in… — Adam Smith 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
There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa — Trevor Bailey Copy Share Image
Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
