Vices Quotes · Page 10

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

— Bret Harte

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

— Horace

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

— Tom Stoppard

Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.

— Karen Dawn

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

— Edmund Burke

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be…

— Joseph Kanon

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary…

— Plutarch

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

— John McCain

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

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and…

— Joseph Butler

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

— Ambrose Bierce

That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped…

— Benjamin Franklin

My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or…

— Nikola Tesla

Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for…

— John Galt

I'm deciding where I am best for this president-elect [Donald Trump] and this vice president-elect [Mike Pence] in due course. But there…

— Kellyanne Conway

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are…

— Edmund Burke

President Obama was in Disney World today where he unveiled his new plan to create jobs. He was joined by Mickey Mouse…

— Jay Leno

But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe…

— Gordon S. Wood

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five…

— Aristotle

“We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend…

— L.M. Browning

What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce…

— James Cook

For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day…

— Mike Pence

When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean…

— Peter Høeg

Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops.

— Margo St. James

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

— Richard Whately

Tim Kaine is an excellent choice for vice president.

— Julian Castro

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

— Patrick Henry

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

— Alan Perlis

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

— Publilius Syrus

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

— Aristophanes

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

— Quintilian