Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/igqpdgvh · submitted 1997
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
tiny.ag/fufp6yke · submitted 1997
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
tiny.ag/0ctojvkr · submitted 1997
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect -- and no more of it than we had earned.
tiny.ag/6qdfb14w · submitted 1997
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/k4hosucr · submitted 1997
Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.
tiny.ag/l4pyn7j8 · submitted 1997
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
tiny.ag/ubdtlbzz · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
tiny.ag/fqtpy65n · submitted 1997
Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink.
tiny.ag/wobuqdw1 · submitted 1997
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/dsx2hptx · submitted 1997
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.
Unknown, (Sioux Indian prayer), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/4euzwypx · submitted 1997
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
tiny.ag/zeuc9zpa · submitted 1997
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
tiny.ag/pqyzbh1e · submitted 1997
Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
tiny.ag/d39nscy0 · submitted 1997 by Ardyth M. Shaw
All the way to heaven is heaven.
tiny.ag/fpmrxth3 · submitted 1997
A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.
tiny.ag/8v5ai4cz · submitted 1997
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · submitted 1997
Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/4izcdfw7 · submitted 1997
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
tiny.ag/zrxpvvz6 · submitted 1997
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
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