Vice and Virtue

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle, Rhetoric, in Vice and Virtue

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong, in Vice and Virtue

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

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr., in Vice and Virtue

The time is always right to do what is right

Martin Luther King, Jr., in Vice and Virtue

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr., in Vice and Virtue

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

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women and Vice and Virtue

The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Vice and Virtue

The more you put into life, the less you will get.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest ways of suffering, and the most comfortable ways of dying.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Truth fears no questions.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

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

Thomas Jefferson, in Law and Politics and Vice and Virtue

Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Vice and Virtue

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson, in Vice and Virtue and Wisdom and Ignorance

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, in Vice and Virtue

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor, in Vice and Virtue