Vices Quotes - Page 20

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.