“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.” — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one… — Slash Copy Share Image
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa. — Stephen Root Copy Share Image
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my… — John Nance Garner Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Love and ego cannot go together. Knowledge and ego go together perfectly well, but love and ego cannot go together, not at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs- bank vice presidents, insurance salesmen,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Okay, so if that's not real, what is? What counts, to you?" He thought for a second, then said, "I don't know.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life.… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the… — Sarah Trimmer Copy Share Image
Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course. — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that. — Veronika Varekova Copy Share Image
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground. — Ovid Copy Share Image
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
