I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean… — Fatty Arbuckle Copy Share Image
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who… — Thomas of Villanova Copy Share Image
It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Remember, the left corrupts everything, folks. The Democrat Party, the left corrupts every institution. They politicize it, and by virtue of that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when… — Catherine Weaver Copy Share Image
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can… — Hasidic Copy Share Image
Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power… — Trita Parsi Copy Share Image
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image