Vice and Virtue
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tiny.ag/0ctojvkr · submitted 1997
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect -- and no more of it than we had earned.
tiny.ag/zeuc9zpa · submitted 1997
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
tiny.ag/ubdtlbzz · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
tiny.ag/wobuqdw1 · submitted 1997
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/bafxiwkf · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/ajwgbtvf · submitted 1997
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
tiny.ag/eccda2wq · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/4uvnidhy · submitted 1997
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
tiny.ag/gpt56czo · submitted 1997
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
tiny.ag/fpgp1ubk · submitted 1997
I am so evil that heaven won't take me and hell is afraid I'll take over.
Unknown, (T-shirt), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/f2qlymio · submitted 1997
I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.
Unknown, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/v0yeshan · submitted 1997
I'm not afraid of work... I can even sleep beside it.
tiny.ag/d6tftb8q · submitted 1997
If everyone would sweep in front of their own door, the whole world would be clean.
Unknown, (Middle Eastern proverb), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/rh0iiyqp · submitted 1997
If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
tiny.ag/0xhdtnul · submitted 1997
If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.
tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
tiny.ag/tgkornhe · submitted 1997
Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/nhmiijfj · submitted 1997
I drink to make other people interesting.
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