Vices Quotes
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If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.
Harry Connick, Jr. -
We pardon familiar vices.
Seneca the Younger
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The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the dog under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.
Brigham Young -
Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.
Kevin Keegan -
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
R. H. Tawney -
The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.
Confucius -
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
William Shakespeare -
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
Blaise Pascal
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If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well.
Epictetus -
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
Barbara Amiel -
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
William Graham Sumner -
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
Francis Bacon -
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
William Hazlitt -
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
Francis Bacon -
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
William Cowper -
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
William Shakespeare -
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
Seneca the Younger -
Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
Seneca the Younger
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
William Hazlitt -
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
William Falconer -
Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
William Hazlitt -
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!
Mikhail Bulgakov