Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A characteristic of the flesh is its fickleness: it alternates between Yes and No and vice versa. But the will of God… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of… — John McCain Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you… — Mickey Rivers Copy Share Image
It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa. — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
