Quotes about vices

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

My mother said "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said "Just wait."

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

I don't believe in astrology - of course that's very typical of Leos.

Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.

The rich can be "eccentric " the poor have to be considered "nuts."

If I only had a little humility I'd be perfect.

The ability to sin differs among people. For example a short-armed fisherman isn't as big a liar as a long-armed one.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't go very far.

I never gossip but I can give you the names of certain people who do.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

He talks at the drop of a pause.

Deep down I'm really shallow.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

When compelled to cook I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said "No bablo ingles."

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although judging from those around me I have every right to be.

Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

Let's just say he has too many pigeons on his antenna.

I have my standards. They may be low but I have them.

She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions.

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

Show me someone who never gossips and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again and keep smiling.

When someone sings his own praises he always gets the tune too high.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Laugh and the world laughs with you snore and you sleep alone.

We are taught to be free from all vices of life. No greed, anger, lust, and attachment with any mundane things.

[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms.

as long as agreat number of those impressions which form character, like the nicemotions of the arm, remain absolutely independent of the will of man,though it would be the height of folly and presumption to attempt tocalculate the relative proportions of virtue and vice at the future periodsof the world, it may be safely asserted that the vices and moralweakness of mankind, taken in the mass, are invincible.

I've had these demons for years, maybe for my whole life. Then you came along to provoke them, expose them, and eventually rid me of them, because I believe you're the only human that can.

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues are turned into vices, artistic qualities become defects.

I had a dream about you last night. Our vices had wings and our fears could breathe fire. There was nowhere to hide and we were trapped alive. So you reached for your sword and slashed my arm, waking me and saving my life.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.

And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefer to make excuses for them rather than shake them off. We mortals have been endowed with sufficient strength by nature, if only we use this strength, if only we concentrate our powers and rouse them all to help us or at least not to hinder us. The re

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire,(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices

We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend for daily strength are healthy for our character rather than harmful. We must ask ourselves whether the comforts we reach for each day are vices or virtues? Do they feed the best parts of us or do they rob us of them? Even when we are at our most fatigued and are tempted to reach for self-destructive things, we must try to seek out and take solace in those things that will lead to

That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If you pul out in time, the vices are all theirs.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

He parked his car carefully, made sure he'd set all the locks and the alarm. On the steps he kept looking behind him, snapping glances into shadows like he expected this to be a set-up with my gang waiting to roll him. Nervous. But I got this feeling the possibility of danger was all part of it for him. What he wanted was something with an edge to it, something stamped as unmistakable bad. Welcome to the club, dude.

True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater’s heaven. I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with