Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/ogrqyeb7 · submitted 1997
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
tiny.ag/nswjrmi0 · submitted 1997
Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
tiny.ag/rjjl9rkn · submitted 1997
Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken.
tiny.ag/kgx6jecr · submitted 1997
Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time.
tiny.ag/mznhvk59 · submitted 1997
It is easier to point the finger than to offer a helping hand.
tiny.ag/d5uig8oy · submitted 1999 by Son House
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
tiny.ag/tmupilkz · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/0y72zrbp · submitted 1997
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
tiny.ag/igqpdgvh · submitted 1997
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
tiny.ag/e2igybvl · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ubsgpw2q · submitted 1997
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
tiny.ag/l4pyn7j8 · submitted 1997
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
tiny.ag/ajwgbtvf · submitted 1997
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
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/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.
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