Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/mbwozhf6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (191 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
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/jq7rxlqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
tiny.ag/umrsfwb2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (188 ratings) · submitted 1997
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
tiny.ag/g42cvkx0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/akhrcibo · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
tiny.ag/kfcphxpx · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · ★★☆☆ Fair (734 ratings) · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/bvnk86xs · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
tiny.ag/eccda2wq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/6y7nwgkt · ★★☆☆ Fair (1119 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
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/i6tlcabi · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · ★★☆☆ Fair (430 ratings) · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
tiny.ag/gpt56czo · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
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