Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/0ctojvkr · ★★☆☆ Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect -- and no more of it than we had earned.
tiny.ag/zeuc9zpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (207 ratings) · submitted 1997
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
tiny.ag/ubdtlbzz · ★★☆☆ Fair (1019 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
tiny.ag/wobuqdw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/6ct2p1fh · ★★☆☆ Fair (214 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth fears no questions.
tiny.ag/zcorimat · ★★☆☆ Fair (200 ratings) · submitted 1997
The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest ways of suffering, and the most comfortable ways of dying.
tiny.ag/tsgrsoaf · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
tiny.ag/eljwsw1t · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.
tiny.ag/wj0czhzk · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more you put into life, the less you will get.
tiny.ag/mldrjipn · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/7hdzmwue · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/psiwplgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (266 ratings) · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
tiny.ag/mnliphwg · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
tiny.ag/tsfy8mui · ★★☆☆ Fair (248 ratings) · submitted 1997
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
tiny.ag/kqsn5x9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on.
tiny.ag/jgcbbn8p · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
Revenge is sleeping with your enemy's wife. Sweet revenge is the realization that she's a lousy lay.
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · ★★☆☆ Fair (287 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.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/iudoprdc · ★★☆☆ Fair (353 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/raz2xodz · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
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