Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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121–140 (162)
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/t2fxueny · submitted 1997
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
tiny.ag/9yutw8at · submitted 1997
It does not take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength to know what to do.
tiny.ag/edpzpyw4 · submitted 1997
Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.
tiny.ag/tusapfzm · 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/dlbjkpva · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/1f9y6qie · submitted 1997
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/ygwiuhmq · submitted 1997
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · 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 · submitted 1997
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
tiny.ag/zk2aryim · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
tiny.ag/jesbzwxp · submitted 1997
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
tiny.ag/9n0oa4te · submitted 1997
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
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