It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats… — Menander Copy Share Image
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order:… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
