Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Pliny Elder

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Andreas Capellanus

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

David Lee

Just like Harry you have to learn your way around. You have to go to classes, learn spells, and interact with evil counterparts.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

Bible Bible

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Confucius

He who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil.

Richard John Neuhaus

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Samuel Johnson

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

Samuel Johnson

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

Brian Wallace

It is all about a fulfillment of a promise that was made,

Carl Jung

Didn't I promise I'd always look after you and keep you from harm?

Richard Paul Evans

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Richelle Mead

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

Richard M. Nixon

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.

Robert W. Service

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

Sara Shepard

Go now. Alone. Or I make good on my promise. -A

Samuel West

We'll be back. I promise you that.

Vladimir Lenin

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Benjamin Franklin

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

Kenneth Roth

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

Bob Beauprez

We need to stay to the promise. Promises made need to be promises kept.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

Kesha

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

Ogden Nash

But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them, With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

Epictetus

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Ozzy Osbourne

We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, "Respect.

Kobe Bryant

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Lewis Black

Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.

David Sedaris

At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

Charles Dickens

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Bible Bible

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour.

Richard Whately

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

William Morris

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Samuel Smiles

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Richard Ford

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

William Hazlitt

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Megan Fox

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

Susie Orbach

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

Rachel Perry

I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.

Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

William Graham Sumner

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

William Hazlitt

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

Laurence Sterne

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Cassandra Clare

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Oscar Wilde

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.