| "Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses." »Winston Churchill |
| "Gluttony is not a secret vice." »Orson Welles |
| "Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues." »Quintilian |
| "Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so." »Chinese Proverb |
| "More anticipated the beginning.... Less welcome is the end.... and vice versa" »Siddharth Astir |
| "Good taste is the worst vice ever invented." »Edith Sitwell |
| "Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise." »William Blake |
| "The vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does." »Bill Vaughan |
| "Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need." »Voltaire |
| "There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts." »Mary Bertone |
| "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." »Barry Goldwater |
| "The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny." »James Fenimore Cooper |
| "It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents." »General Omar Nelson Bradley |
| "Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." »Joseph Addison |
| "I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood." »William Shakespeare |
| "I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president." »Alexander Meigs Haig |
| "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's the President'" »Will Rogers |
| "To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom." »Horace |
| "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'." »Dan Quayle |
| "What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa." »Charles E. Wilson |
| "I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much." »Peter Ustinov |
| "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." »Winston Churchill |
| "Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years." »William Golding |
| "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice." »Thomas Paine |
| "The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself." »Thomas a Kempis |
| "Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." »Francis Bacon |
| "Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage." »Joseph Addison |
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