Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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121–140 (162)
tiny.ag/tqbfx5vp · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
tiny.ag/iah742zs · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
tiny.ag/rmw0uaoj · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · ★★☆☆ Fair (287 ratings) · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/psiwplgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (266 ratings) · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
tiny.ag/mnliphwg · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
tiny.ag/7hdzmwue · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/tsfy8mui · ★★☆☆ Fair (248 ratings) · submitted 1997
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
tiny.ag/fm3etwy0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
tiny.ag/qed4rpux · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
tiny.ag/xo2lhomi · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1998 by A. Heyn
To forget is human, to forgive divine.
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1026 ratings) · submitted 1998
If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/zllwc8ka · ★★☆☆ Fair (807 ratings) · submitted 1998
The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ytxzhxw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1091 ratings) · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/uj7gzt1i · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
tiny.ag/bungm82p · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · ★★☆☆ Fair (739 ratings) · submitted 1999
I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/p3i4etjg · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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