Vice and Virtue

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

There is no bad in good.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

I want what I want when I want it!

Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.

Elbert Hubbard, in Men and Women and Vice and Virtue

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Elbert Hubbard, in Science and Religion and Vice and Virtue

Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

W. C. Fields, in Vice and Virtue

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Anatole France, in Vice and Virtue

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

John Andrew Holmes, in Vice and Virtue

Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Vice and Virtue

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

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

A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

All the way to heaven is heaven.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire, in Vice and Virtue

The superfluous is very necessary.

Voltaire, in Vice and Virtue

Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.

Peter Wastholm, in Vice and Virtue

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh, in Vice and Virtue