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

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

It is easier to point the finger than to offer a helping hand.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

Unknown, in 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.

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

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

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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

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell, in Vice and Virtue

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

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All the way to heaven is heaven.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

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

Unknown, in 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

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue