Vices Quotes - Page 22

• Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Motivation, Principles

  The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792) See Goldwater 3

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• If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Problem, Vice Versa

  "From XLIII: An interview with Bill Parcells". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. January 31, 2009.

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• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Discipline, Vice Versa

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• It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

  Alan Perlis

  Change, Computer, Fit

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophy, Believe, Exercise

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• The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Differences, Literature

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.87

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• Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Pride, Haughtiness, Erring

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.66

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• I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

  Paula Poundstone

  Alaska, Taught Us, California

  "Thanksgiving Is Not Just for Leftovers" by Paula Poundstone, November 26, 2008.

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• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  Dan Quayle

  Witty, Responsibility, Political

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• When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

  Dan Quayle

  Yesterday, Phones, President

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• I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

  Dan Quayle

  Couple, Years, President

  "John Sununu, the fashion giant" by Donnie Radcliffe, www.washingtonpost.com. December 4, 1990.

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• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  Quintilian

  Character, Mind, Matter

  Quintilian (1953). “The Instituto Oratoria of Quintilian”

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• Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Integrity, Hypocrisy, Identity

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• The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Virtue, Interest

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• What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Often Is, Facts

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• When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Leaving, Imagine

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• Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Reality, Virtue

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• The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Self, Names

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• There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men

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• Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Wicked, Determined

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• The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

  Will Rogers

  Good Morning, Country, Jobs

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• Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Funny Relationship, Age, Add

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• A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Patriotic, Issues

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• The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Secret, Likes, Firsts

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• Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

  Bertrand Russell

  Power, Men, Religion

  The New York Herald-Tribune Magazine, March 6, 1938.

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