The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain. — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President. — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they… — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a… — Jared Sparks Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction. — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I asked that I not be considered for vice president of the United States. — John McCain Copy Share Image