Bigs Quote by Bret Harte Download Open image “One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.” — Bret Harte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bigs Great man Great men Men Vices
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
“If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“Nellie was a good girl, and I think had a sort of quiet respect for old Fagg's unobtrusiveness. But her fancy was already taken captive by Rattler's superficial qualities, which were obvious and pleasing. I don't think Nellie was any worse than you or I. We are more apt to take acquaintances at their apparent value than their intrinsic worth.… — Bret Harte Copy Share
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England. — Bret Harte Copy Share
“Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' He then handed him his money… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,-- Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot; But out on this alkali desert, a hunting a crazy wife, Was ra'ly as on-satis-factory as anything in my life.” — Bret Harte Copy Share
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral quality of… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let… — Kim Alexis Copy Share
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be. — Kenny Wormald Copy Share
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
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