Vices Quotes - Page 30

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.

You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.