To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“TO BE HAPPY, BE VIRTUOUS. THERE ARE ONLY TWO REASONS TO EVER DO ANYTHING; TO BE HAPPY, AND TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE… — Daniel Keys Moran Copy Share Image
I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
