Vices Quotations
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| There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. | |||
| - Woody Allen | |||
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| Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive. | |||
| - David Assael | |||
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| Idleness is the beginning of all vices. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. | |||
| - Walter Bagehot | |||
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| Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. | |||
| - Tallulah Bankhead | |||
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| He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. | |||
| - Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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| It is a great thing to know our vices. | |||
| - Cicero | |||
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| How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. | |||
| - Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |||
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| If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? | |||
| - John Churton Collins | |||
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| The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. | |||
| - René Descartes | |||
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| There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." | |||
| - W. MacNeile Dixon | |||
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| Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. | |||
| - Benjamin Franklin | |||
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| We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. | |||
| - Holbrook Jackson | |||
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| It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. | |||
| - Abraham Lincoln | |||
| It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. | |||
| - Abraham Lincoln | |||
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| Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
| Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. | |||
| - J. Petit-Senn | |||
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| When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. | |||
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld | |||
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| Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. | |||
| - George Savile | |||
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| Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. | |||
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |||
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| The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. | |||
| - William Shakespeare | |||
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| The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. | |||
| - Elizabeth Taylor | |||
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| Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. | |||
| - Thornton Wilder | |||