Vice is such a hideous creature,
that the more you see
of it the better you like it.
?Finley Peter Dunne
Show me a man who lives alone and
has a perpetually clean kitchen,
and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man
with detestable spiritual qualities.
?Charles Bukowski
Every form of addiction is bad, no
matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
?Carl Gustav Jung
One should judge a man mainly
from his depravities.
Virtues can be faked.
Depravities are real.
?Klaus Kinski
Folks who have no vices
have plaguey few virtues.
?Abraham Lincoln
Basically, I'm for anything that
gets you through the night -
be it prayer, tranquilizers or
a bottle of Jack Daniels.
?Frank Sinatra
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of
abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
?Luis Bunuel
To a philosophic eye, the vices
of the clergy are far less
dangerous than their virtues.
?Edward Gibbon
The function of vice is to keep
virtue within reasonable bounds.
?Samuel Butler
Think no vice so small that
you may commit it,
and no virtue so small that
you may over look it.
?Confucius
When our vices leave us,
we flatter ourselves that
we are leaving them.
?Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Vice is a creature of such hideous
mien... that the more you
see it the better you like it.
?Finley Peter Dunne
It has been my experience that folks
who have no vices have very few virtues.
?Abraham Lincoln
His was the sort of career
that made the Recording
Angel think seriously about
taking up shorthand.
?Nicolas Bentley
He who hates vice hates men.
?John Morley
The virtue of some people
consists wholly in condemning
the vices in others.
?Herbert Samuel
What were once vices are
the fashion of the day.
?Seneca
Every vice has its excuse ready.
?Publilius Syrus
I have not a particle of confidence in a
man who has no redeeming vices.
?Mark Twain
Never support two weaknesses at
the same time. It's your combination
sinners -- your lecherous liars and your
miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the
vices and bring them into bad repute.
?Thornton Wilder
Nothing is as certain as that the vices
of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
?Seneca
Hate no one; hate their vices,
not themselves.
?J G C Brainard
Search others for their virtues,
thyself for thy vices.
?Benjamin Franklin
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest
vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
?Rene Descartes
