Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
41–60 (162)
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/zk2aryim · ★★☆☆ Fair (122 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/dccyeyhv · ★★☆☆ Fair (347 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/nhmiijfj · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
I drink to make other people interesting.
tiny.ag/1jfp82uv · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
tiny.ag/igqpdgvh · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
tiny.ag/0y72zrbp · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
tiny.ag/tmupilkz · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/d5uig8oy · ★★☆☆ Fair (1187 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Son House
If I didn't have a problem with alcohol, I'd drink all the time.
Havelock Ellis, (from biographer's notes), in Food and Drink and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/mgrteolp · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Robert J. Hanlon, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
tiny.ag/hifvkpkc · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · ★★☆☆ Fair (181 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/roibaqpn · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · ★★☆☆ Fair (810 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/pu94ynqw · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
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