Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/fqtpy65n · submitted 1997
Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink.
tiny.ag/4euzwypx · submitted 1997
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
tiny.ag/pqyzbh1e · submitted 1997
Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
tiny.ag/d39nscy0 · submitted 1997 by Ardyth M. Shaw
All the way to heaven is heaven.
tiny.ag/dtrgibi2 · submitted 1997
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
tiny.ag/igqpdgvh · submitted 1997
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
tiny.ag/0y72zrbp · submitted 1997
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
tiny.ag/tmupilkz · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/d5uig8oy · submitted 1999 by Son House
If I didn't have a problem with alcohol, I'd drink all the time.
Havelock Ellis, (from biographer's notes), in Food and Drink and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/fpmrxth3 · submitted 1997
A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.
tiny.ag/qyfvan9d · submitted 1997
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/dbuk2zcq · submitted 1997
When choosing between evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
tiny.ag/cjkab7en · submitted 1997
I can resist everything except temptation.
tiny.ag/rmw0uaoj · submitted 1997
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/wpd94fsg · submitted 1997
The superfluous is very necessary.
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · submitted 1998
If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/zllwc8ka · submitted 1998
The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ytxzhxw1 · submitted 1997
Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
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