Vices Quotes - Page 18

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Amor verus numquam moritur: True love never dies

Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

There is even the dignity of vice.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.