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.

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.

Publilius Syrus

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

Publilius Syrus

Pardon others often, thyself never.

Andrew Fanara

We want to raise the temperature on this, pardon the pun.

William Shakespeare

Pardon's the word to all.

Augusto Pinochet

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

Saadi

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

George Carlin

Pardon me I've got nothing to say.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Tony Allen

If he doesn't have anything to hide, why did he pardon them now before the trial?

George Herbert

Pardon all but thy selfe. [Pardon all but thyself.]

Bob Tipton

I think that most people that are on those roads are familiar with them, and the rare instance that they aren't familiar with them, we do have two of these signs.

S. Walker

It got really familiar. It's not something you want to be familiar with.

Mike Woodson

He's been here and he's familiar with everything we do.

Randy Sanders

I'm familiar with what he teaches and he does a good job.

Ben Quinby

It seems like we have been looking at different combinations of kids. We're still not settled. The kids are not real familiar yet with each other.

Dan Griffin

They had no life paddles, no life vests, no personal protective equipment. They weren't familiar with the river, either.

Dennis King

They'd much rather work back at home where they're familiar with their people,

Ed Colligan

This is about growth, ... There are millions of people around the world who want that familiar Windows experience.

Tiki Barber

It's two very evenly matched teams. We're quite familiar with what they do, but they know what our tendencies are.