Chinese Quote by Oliver Goldsmith Download Open image “The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.” — Oliver Goldsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinese Chinese Laws English law Funny Humor Law Laws Punish Lawyer Punish Vice Reward Virtue Rewards Vice Chinese Vices Virtue
There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process. In today’s… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will… — Allan Pinkerton Copy Share Image
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no action, however bizarre you may picture it,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing about the Chinese is that they've operated differently than the Russians, the Iranians, and the North Koreans. By and large, they… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people… — Philip French Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
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