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

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, 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

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

Francis Bacon, 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

He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue

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

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.

Unknown, (Sioux Indian prayer), in Vice and Virtue

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

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

I'm not afraid of work... I can even sleep beside it.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation

If everyone would sweep in front of their own door, the whole world would be clean.

Unknown, (Middle Eastern proverb), in Vice and Virtue

If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue