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Vice and Virtue

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#  ·  **-- Not So Good (2 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr., in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  ***- Good (one rating)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

La Rochefoucauld, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Jonathan Swift, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1998 by A. Heyn

To forget is human, to forgive divine.

Marc Spierings, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (10 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997 by Ardyth M. Shaw (updated 1998)

All the way to heaven is heaven.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (11 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Joseph Addison, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  ***- Good (8 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (18 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Laurie Anderson, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  *--- Bad (2 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (8 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Francis Bacon, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (21 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce, in Vice and Virtue and War and Peace

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (13 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Ambrose Bierce, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (166 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A truth that's told with bad intent<BR>Beats all the lies you can invent

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (48 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (9 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (5 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (10 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (4 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne, in Vice and Virtue

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