Vice and Virtue

Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce, in Vice and Virtue and War and Peace

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Ambrose Bierce, in Vice and Virtue

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi, 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

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov, Foundation, in Vice and Virtue

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Francis Bacon, in Vice and Virtue

Too much of a good thing is just that.

Brian J. Dent, in Vice and Virtue

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

John Dryden, in Vice and Virtue

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Georges Duhamel, in Vice and Virtue

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein, 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

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Marva Collins, in Vice and Virtue

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton, in Vice and Virtue

We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1.247, in Vice and Virtue

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne, in Vice and Virtue

Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.

Albert Camus, in Vice and Virtue

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver, in Vice and Virtue

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Joseph Addison, in Vice and Virtue

It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler, in Vice and Virtue