Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
41–60 (162)
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/dbuk2zcq · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
When choosing between evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
tiny.ag/dtrgibi2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
tiny.ag/rmw0uaoj · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
tiny.ag/iah742zs · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
tiny.ag/tqbfx5vp · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
tiny.ag/ygwiuhmq · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
tiny.ag/jyl21f8h · ★★☆☆ Fair (143 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
tiny.ag/7qd8abl4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
tiny.ag/jesbzwxp · ★★☆☆ Fair (175 ratings) · 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/vjcm5iep · ★★☆☆ Fair (300 ratings) · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/dccyeyhv · ★★☆☆ Fair (347 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (420 ratings) · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
41–60 (162)