Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
41–60 (162)
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/bvnk86xs · submitted 1997
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
tiny.ag/akhrcibo · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
tiny.ag/g42cvkx0 · 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/umrsfwb2 · submitted 1997
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · 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/jq7rxlqz · submitted 1997
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
tiny.ag/eccda2wq · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
tiny.ag/1jfp82uv · submitted 1997
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
tiny.ag/nhmiijfj · submitted 1997
I drink to make other people interesting.
tiny.ag/5nmjgd34 · submitted 1997
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
tiny.ag/gpt56czo · submitted 1997
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
tiny.ag/4uvnidhy · submitted 1997
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
tiny.ag/d5uig8oy · 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/tgkornhe · submitted 1997
Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue
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