Vices Quotes

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

No vice is so bad as advice.

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Spare the person but lash the vice.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.