Vices Quotes · Page 13

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Richard Whately

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

— Margo St. James

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

— Publilius Syrus

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

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

— Publilius Syrus

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden…

— Conan O'Brien

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

— Bill Vaughan

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for…

— Colin Baker

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

— D. Todd Christofferson

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

— Agnes Repplier

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

— Marco Rubio

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as…

— Sigmund Freud

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt,…

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

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

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider…

— John Milton

Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities.…

— Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side…

— Gregory Maguire

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of…

— John Calvin

Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread…

— William Ellery Channing

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never…

— James Sharp

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no…

— John Piper

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the…

— Jim Harrison

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line…

— Kenny Smith

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

— Melina Marchetta

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

— Bill Parcells

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

— Tori Amos

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

— Patrick Henry

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

— William Shakespeare

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

— Josh Billings

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

— Jason Gann

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

— J. G. Holland