Vices Quotes - Page 16

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

Vices are not crimes.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

That low vice, curiosity!