If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I would ask Donald Trump why every single person in his cabinet has spoken out publicly - and his vice president -… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to… — Judith N. Shklar Copy Share Image
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare… — John Gabriel Stedman Copy Share Image
I would say, when Paul Ryan was running for vice president last time, they lost eight of the nine swing states, and… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
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