Quotes by Vices Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there. Eliphas Levi weakness poison vices Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously Elbert Hubbard gossip enjoyed vices Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. Elizabeth Carter vices pride real Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. Eleanor Roosevelt funny-relationship vices age Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. Ella Leya desert vices profound What is pity but the vice of kindness. Emile M. Cioran pity vices kindness If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well Epictetus accusation vices speak Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. Epictetus freedom vices names At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway. Eric Idle kissing vices men Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?' Eric Schmidt apples vices president Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul. Epictetus vices soul evil Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices. Erin Heatherton boring vices would-be If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too. Erich Fromm love-myself virtue vices How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness. Eric Hoffer obscurity vices writing Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying. Ernest Hemingway vices worry writing For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. Erwin Schrodinger community vices animal Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway pleasure vices writing It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. Eric Hoffer virtue vices opposites Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa. Eugene Ormandy orchestra vices funny A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa. Faina Ranevskaya princess vices reality «89101112131415161718»