Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/ajwgbtvf · submitted 1997
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
tiny.ag/bafxiwkf · submitted 1997
If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.
tiny.ag/kgx6jecr · submitted 1997
Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time.
tiny.ag/rjjl9rkn · submitted 1997
Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken.
tiny.ag/nswjrmi0 · submitted 1997
Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
tiny.ag/ogrqyeb7 · submitted 1997
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
tiny.ag/zk2aryim · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/dccyeyhv · submitted 1997
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/pu94ynqw · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · submitted 1997
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/mznhvk59 · submitted 1997
It is easier to point the finger than to offer a helping hand.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/jyl21f8h · submitted 1997
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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