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Woody Allen (top)
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


David Assael (top)
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


Unknown Author (top)
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
- Unknown Author


Walter Bagehot (top)
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- Walter Bagehot


Tallulah Bankhead (top)
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
- Tallulah Bankhead


Sir Winston Churchill (top)
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill


Cicero (top)
It is a great thing to know our vices.
- Cicero


Samuel Taylor Coleridge (top)
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge


John Churton Collins (top)
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
- John Churton Collins


René Descartes (top)
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
- René Descartes


W. MacNeile Dixon (top)
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
- W. MacNeile Dixon


Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Benjamin Franklin (top)
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin


Holbrook Jackson (top)
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
- Holbrook Jackson


Abraham Lincoln (top)
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


Mignon McLaughlin (top)
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


J. Petit-Senn (top)
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
- J. Petit-Senn


Francois de la Rochefoucauld (top)
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld


George Savile (top)
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
- George Savile


Lucius Annaeus Seneca (top)
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca


William Shakespeare (top)
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
- William Shakespeare


Elizabeth Taylor (top)
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


Thornton Wilder (top)
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