Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius Copy Share Image
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two,"… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa.… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice… — William James Copy Share Image
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice"… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to… — Notah Begay III Copy Share Image
What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a… — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major… — Guillermo Gonzalez Copy Share Image
When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
When you want to direct someone toward the good, first put him at peace bodily and honor him with words of love.… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa… — Jack D. Schwager Copy Share Image
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image