The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity — G. B. Caird Copy Share Image
My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try. — George Strait Copy Share Image
Zedillo's lack of political savvy is a personal flaw. But his insulated and elitist governing style reflect the age-old vices of the… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars.… — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low,… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the… — Thomas Paine 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
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
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
I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image