What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. — Jack Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it,… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free. — Henry George Copy Share Image
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it. — Michael Ugwu Eneja Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression. — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
