Quotes About Morality

Surely God wrongs not men anything, but themselves men wrong.

The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

See Dick drink. See Dick drive. See Dick die. Don't be a Dick.

Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money.

A conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.

Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity.

I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

Fools make a mock at sin.

Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up.

All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas — that's what my grandma taught me.

Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.

If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.

Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting, and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.