Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/9uv5rp2p · submitted 1997
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · submitted 1998
If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/xo2lhomi · submitted 1998 by A. Heyn
To forget is human, to forgive divine.
tiny.ag/qed4rpux · submitted 1997
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
tiny.ag/fm3etwy0 · submitted 1997
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
tiny.ag/tsfy8mui · submitted 1997
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
tiny.ag/7hdzmwue · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/mnliphwg · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
tiny.ag/psiwplgd · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/iudoprdc · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/raz2xodz · submitted 1997
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
tiny.ag/9te2rxr1 · submitted 1997
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
tiny.ag/ca72ttqk · submitted 1997
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
tiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
tiny.ag/54eiupku · submitted 1997
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/akhrcibo · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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