The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so:… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
President Obama was in Disney World today where he unveiled his new plan to create jobs. He was joined by Mickey Mouse… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard Copy Share Image
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched.… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders,… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
I may not be funny. I may not be a singer. I may not be a damn seamstress. I may have diabetes.… — Justin Johnson Copy Share Image
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
