Vices Quotes - Page 15

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren’t many things better than those two combined.

The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

One must always be careful of books.

Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.