Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · ★★☆☆ Fair (490 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
tiny.ag/p3i4etjg · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
tiny.ag/pu94ynqw · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
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/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/bpu9tj3d · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · ★★☆☆ Fair (181 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/hifvkpkc · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
tiny.ag/edpzpyw4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.
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/mnrh4p2b · ★★☆☆ Fair (608 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/1f9y6qie · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/dlbjkpva · ★★☆☆ Fair (165 ratings) · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
tiny.ag/tusapfzm · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · ★★☆☆ Fair (300 ratings) · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/9yutw8at · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
It does not take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength to know what to do.
tiny.ag/ygwiuhmq · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
tiny.ag/t2fxueny · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
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