Quotes About Vice

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

Gold is the root-essence of lead. It is considered an implicit component of all metals in greater or lesser degree, based on their density, much as the illuminated spiritual reality is considered implicit in the soul of each incarnate human, no matter how overlaid with vice and ignorance.

It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Adventure is the vice of all Woodcutters.

Nothing is more common than that a man shall know perfectly well that some possibly trivial habit stands in the way of something that it is his interest or his duty to pursue; but the knowledge lies inoperative in the outermost part of him. It is so in regard to graver things. The majority of the slaves of any vice whatsoever know perfectly well that they ought to give it up, and yet nothing comes of the conviction.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.