I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities.… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A characteristic of the flesh is its fickleness: it alternates between Yes and No and vice versa. But the will of God… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point.… — John Neff Copy Share Image
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time,… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa. — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
