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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (187 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

[aphorist] George Bernard Shaw, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism and [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (67 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

[aphorist] Mark Twain, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (59 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.

[aphorist] Cardinal Richelieu, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (150 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

[aphorist] Rudyard Kipling, in [category] Men and Women and [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (18 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.

[aphorist] Philip Sidney, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (745 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

[aphorist] Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1.247, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (54 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (665 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do few things.

[aphorist] Lord Halifax, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1025 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Son House

If I didn't have a problem with alcohol, I'd drink all the time.

[aphorist] Havelock Ellis, (from biographer's notes), in [category] Food and Drink and [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (722 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Brian J. Dent

Too much of a good thing is just that.

[aphorist] Brian J. Dent, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (709 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

The time is always right to do what is right

[aphorist] Martin Luther King, Jr., in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (884 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Glenn Troester

When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (689 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

[aphorist] Jonas Salk, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (647 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.

[aphorist] Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1218 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Sugar

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

[aphorist] Thomas Jefferson, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (916 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Erwin van Moll

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

[aphorist] Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (726 ratings)  ·  submitted 1998 (updated 1999)

The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.

[aphorist] Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in [category] Vice and Virtue

The Effort to Fall (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (654 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

[aphorist] Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in [category] Vice and Virtue

History of England (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (720 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.

[aphorist] Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in [category] Vice and Virtue

Time Enough for Love (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (788 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

[aphorist] Isaac Asimov, Foundation, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Foundation (paperback)

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