Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

Diane Arbus

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Juvenal

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Arthur Helps

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Augustus Hare

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Charles Dickens

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Darren Shan

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Carolina Herrera

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Carl Hiaasen

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Bev Perdue

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

David Kelley

Mike made an accusation in closed session, and Dr. Thompson replied,

Tony Leon

But an ordinary reading of his remarks on the occasion - as well as camera footage of the conference - clearly indicated he was making an accusation of sabotage. He is even shown clearly using the word 'sabotage'.

David Mamet

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

Tracey Schmitt

Harry Reid's accusation that President Bush is playing politics with national security may earn him the title of hypocrite-in-chief.

Andrew Gowers

There is an accusation of a rise of companies sitting defensively on patents. There are patent thickets, which are a complex web of patents which may stunt invention and discourage research and development.

Alfred Adler

There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone.

Kerry Sutton

Go back in any news archive and look at the men who have been freed from prison, look at the men that have been taken off death row. Mistakes happen. Bad directions are taken by district attorneys; police make mistakes. It happens all the time: False accusation is commonplace.

Michael Bradley

If the accusation is I'm friends with (Boone), then I'm guilty of that. But I'm guilty of that with a lot of legislators down there. If I had to find a sponsor for a bill that I didn't know or that I didn't like, I'd be hard pressed.

John Wilson

We all have a Judge Danforth in our lives, that voice of condemnation that calls us to confess the egregious. Sometimes the accusation is unfounded, not shaped by our actions, but by what the world thinks of us already.