Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa. — Sigmund Freud
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness. — Sigmund Freud
See, that's the thing about second chances. It's two people that are there for each other and support each other and care about each other… — Jacqueline Kelly
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all… — John McCain
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices. — Ambrose Bierce
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. — Ambrose Bierce
... my life has been dedicated to my growth and evolution as a conscious being. ... becoming more aware of all that was taking place… — Shakti Gawain
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. — Henry Fielding
The vices of some men are magnificent. — Charles Lamb
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything. — Honore de Balzac
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. — Aristophanes
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. — Hosea Ballou
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. — Henry Ward Beecher
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. — Edmund Burke
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much… — Oliver Goldsmith
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have… — Rajneesh
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me,… — Rajneesh
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more… — Ayn Rand
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping… — John Donne
Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to… — Philip Neri
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? — John Churton Collins
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. — Thomas Carlyle

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