Win The Life

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. -Samuel Johnson

 

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa. -Stephen Potter

 

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. -Theodore Roosevelt

 

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much. -Mary Cheney

 

Ambition is not a vice of little people. -Michel de Montaigne

 

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. -Philip Massinger

 

Avarice is the vice of declining years. -George Bancroft

 

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. – Unknown

 

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. – Unknown

 

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices. – Unknown

 

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. – Unknown

 

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, He who hates vice hates mankind. -W. MacNeile Dixon

 

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. -Mignon McLaughlin

 

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. -Abraham Lincoln

 

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. -J. Petit-Senn

 

Idleness is the beginning of all vices. –Proverb

 

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it. -Salvador de Madariaga

 

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. -Bertrand Arthur William Russell

 

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. -Lady Marguerite Blessington

 

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. - Alexander Haig

 

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. – Voltaire

 

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. – Aristophanes

 

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. - Bret Harte

 

Vices are often habits rather than passions. - Antoine Rivarol

 

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. - Dame Edith Sitwell

 

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. – Juvenal

 

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. - Edmund Burke