Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/kgx6jecr · submitted 1997
Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time.
tiny.ag/17uoj5hx · submitted 1997
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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/xuteqz61 · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/mltkwzme · submitted 1997
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/2p8s4z0u · submitted 1997
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/psiwplgd · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · 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/iudoprdc · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · submitted 1999
I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/mnliphwg · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
tiny.ag/bungm82p · submitted 1997
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
tiny.ag/uj7gzt1i · submitted 1997
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
tiny.ag/7hdzmwue · 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/fm3etwy0 · submitted 1997
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
tiny.ag/xo2lhomi · submitted 1998 by A. Heyn
To forget is human, to forgive divine.
tiny.ag/qed4rpux · submitted 1997
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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