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Vice
Quotations About Vices
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." ~ Spike Milligan
"All of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid." ~ Brian Moore (1921-1999) Irish Novelist
"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." ~ Aristotle, BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
"As a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him" ~ Charles de Gaulle, President of France
"As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid." ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." ~ Orson Welles
"Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you you are making too much money" ~ Robin Williams
"Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear" ~ Jerome K. Jerome, Author
"Egomania is the natural ingredient of talent" ~ Martin Amis, Novelist
"Everyone is a potential murderer. I have not killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction out of obituary notices." ~ Clarence Darrow, criminal lawyer
"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world." ~ Kaiser Wilhelm
"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times." ~ Mark Twain
"Hating people is like burning your own house down to get rid of a rat." ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
"How vain it is to sit down and write if you have not stood up to live." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." ~ W.C Fields
"I can resist everything except temptation." ~ Oscar Wilde
"I drink to make other people interesting." ~ Groucho Marx
"If alcohol is a crutch, then Jack Daniels is the wheelchair" ~ Robin Williams
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." ~ Frank Sinatra
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience." ~ William James
"If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father" ~ Jean de la Bruyere, Author
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." ~ J. Paul Getty
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism" ~ Oscar Wilde
"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong" ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, Novelist
"I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life." ~ Humphrey Bogart
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence" (The Peter Principle) ~ Laurence J. Peter
"I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back." ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest" ~ Tom Stoppard, Playwright
"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated. It is finished when it surrenders." ~ Ben Stein
"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people." ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth." ~ George Burns
"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted" ~ Mae West
"I was born in Melbourne with a precious gift. It was the ability - the priceless ability - to laugh at the misfortunes of others" ~ Barrie Humphries, Comedian
"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect." ~ Emma Goldman (1869-1940), U.S. anarchist.
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~ Mark Twain
"The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in" ~ Lord Chesterfield, Politician
"A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92)
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." ~ John Burroughs
"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth." ~ Chuck Norris
"Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy" ~ Spike Milligan, Comedian
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo" ~ H.G.Wells, Novelist
"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." ~ Edgar Watson Howe
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." ~ Orson Wells (1915 - 1985)
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." ~ Clementine Paddleford
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." - ~ Quentin Crisp
"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is probably the most fun. To lick your wounds, smack your lips, over grievances long past, roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, savor the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back - is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you." ~ Frederick Buechner
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" ~ Walter Scott
"One man's folly is another man's wife." ~ Helen Rowland
"One
of television's greatest contributions is that it brought murder back into the
home where it belongs" ~ Alfred Hitchcock,
Film director, 1966
"One reason I don't drink is because I wish to know when I'm having a good time." ~ Nancy, Lady Astor
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." ~ M. Kathleen Casey
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure." ~ Russell Baker
"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim." ~ Ann Landers
"Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely" ~ Adlai Stevenson, Statesman
"The reason why worry kills more people than work, is that more people worry than work." ~ Robert Frost (1874-1963) Poet
"Revenge is a dish best served cold" ~ Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderios de LaClos
"Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it" ~ Marquis de Vauvenargues, Soldier and Author
"Shut up. I'm broadcasting ... Oh yes, I'm fine. Am I bleeding?" ~ BBC Correspondent John Simpson, 6 April 2003, Iraq.
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." ~ Ambrose Bierce
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex" ~ John Travolta
"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink." ~ Booth Tarkington
"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do." ~ Bill Watterson
"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address." ~ Lane Olinghouse
"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves" ~ Alexander Pope, Poet
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." ~ Albert Camus
"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to borrow from many is research." ~ Author Unknown. Often attributed to Steven Wright.
"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him." ~ Cher
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." ~ Author Unknown
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." ~ Bertrand Russell
"The way to become famous fast, is to throw a brick at someone who is famous." ~ Walter Winchell
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame" ~ Benjamin Franklin
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." ~ Samuel Johnson
"What really flatters a man is that you should think him worth flattering" ~ George Bernard Shaw
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." ~ Oscar Levant
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." ~ Bernard Bailey
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?" ~ Barbara Streisand
"Why should I limit myself to one woman when I can have as many as I want?" ~ George Gershwin
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." ~ Frank Zappa
"You don't have power, if you have surrendered all your principles. You have office." ~ Ron Todd, Union Leader
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