Vices Quotes

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Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word – you have refute and repudiate, and she combined them. A… — David Letterman
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to… — Baldassare Castiglione
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who… — Saint Basil
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. — Alexander von Humboldt
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else. — Solomon Schechter
Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in… — Will Rogers
The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men… — Will Rogers
If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the… — Gerald R. Ford
Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen… — Jane Fonda
We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody. — Dick Cheney
You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa. — Malcolm Turnbull
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked… — Laurie Garrett
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never… — Henry Adams
Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in… — Linda Gray
A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem… — Ouida
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either… — Charles Caleb Colton
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from… — Charles Caleb Colton
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or… — Charles Caleb Colton
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it… — Charles Caleb Colton
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove… — William Hazlitt
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask. — William Hazlitt
Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere. — William Hazlitt
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt

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