Top 1200 Vice Versa Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments,
And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.
To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.
Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.
Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.
Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!
There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there and grade papers on the floor.
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
I'm vice chairman of the American Wild Horse Protection Association and honorary chairman of the Wildlife Federation.
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
I'm a sucker for fries. It's definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure.
I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.
I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.
