Vice and Virtue

Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Revenge is sleeping with your enemy's wife. Sweet revenge is the realization that she's a lousy lay.

Unknown, in 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

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin, in Vice and Virtue

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.

Wilson Mizner, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Molière, in Vice and Virtue

I drink to make other people interesting.

George Jean Nathan, in Vice and Virtue

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Vice and Virtue

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Robert Orben, in Vice and Virtue

On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.

George Orwell, in Vice and Virtue

If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue