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| The Petty Vices Quote File |
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices. --Mark Twain
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom respectable. No virtuous man--that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
Convent : a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness. -Ambrose Beirce
Age : that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. --Albert Einstein
Prohibition, pfft. They tried that in the movies and it didn't work. -Homer Simpson
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. - T.S. Eliot, 1950.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -C. S. Lewis
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 Paul writes on Friday October 24 2003 @ 09:27AM PDT: [ reply | parent ]
Quote I saw for you - you may already know it:
A man without vice is like a ship without ballast; if he runs into trouble he has nothing to throw overboard.
Mark Twain
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Paul writes on Friday October 24 2003 @ 11:31AM PDT: [ reply | parent ]
Another quote that is perhaps one of the best of all time:
(dismissive tone) Awww, you can use facts to prove anything. - Homer Simpson
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tom writes on Wednesday January 28 2004 @ 02:57PM PST: [ reply | parent ]
These are both good, though the Homer Simpson Quote is not exactly keeping with the theme. -t
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Anonymous writes on Saturday May 22 2004 @ 05:04AM PDT: [ reply | parent ]
Here's a memorable vice quote for you:
"If you live a life free of bad habits, you won't live forever but it will feel like it."
Comes from one of the absolute funniest and intelligent articles ever written on Vice, written by D.A. Blyler and published by Salon:
http://dir.salon.com/people/feature/2000/02/09/sevenvices/index.html
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Kayven Riese writes on Monday September 08 2008 @ 01:48PM PDT: [ reply | parent ]
that URL was archived at:
http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/02/09/sevenvices/index.html
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car writes on Thursday November 19 2009 @ 06:58AM PST: [ reply | parent ]
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buy writes on Friday November 20 2009 @ 08:19AM PST: [ reply | parent ]
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buy writes on Friday November 20 2009 @ 09:12PM PST: [ reply | parent ]
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