Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marcel Proust

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

Kenneth Grahame

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

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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Vices are simply overworked virtues ...

Epictetus

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Jim Johnson

He seems fine. He is going to play quite a bit, but he seems fine right now. He has not complained about it, at least to us. So we are assuming he's going to be ready to play 20 or 30 plays.

Willie Randolph

He's going to start to step up his program a little bit. He knows he has to start getting ready. He didn't actually say, 'I'm going to get on the top (of the mound),' but I'm assuming that he might. He probably will. We'll see.

Harry Clark

I think the market is going to have a good decline early next year because of all the broader issues. To an extent, it doesn't matter who replaces Greenspan, assuming it's not a shocker.

Bill Roe

I think you'll probably see an extension of this rally next week, barring any surprises over the weekend and assuming the ISM number Monday is positive.

Jim Stinson

I don't know that they took any gas, but I'm assuming they did. I don't see any other reason to drill a gas tank.

Richard Whately

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

William S. Burroughs

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

Tyrone Hayes

We assume that we’re masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it.

Sarah Dessen

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

Will Durant

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Samuel Johnson

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

Jose Marti

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

John Adams

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Friedrich Schiller

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Ovid

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

Mark Twain

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.