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.

Oscar Wilde

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Russell Baker

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Robert Shaw

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

Warren Buffett

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

John Glover

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

William Golding

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Joe Orton

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.

Megan Duffy

It's March Madness and its tournament time and we are going to play for our lives. We needed this win big time and this is what I live for.

Ed Perlmutter

It's madness, but you also have people speaking on your behalf.

Marguerite Duras

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.

Naguib Mahfouz

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

R. D. Laing

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.