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.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Juvenal

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

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.

Arthur Helps

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

Elfriede Jelinek

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

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.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Joseph Campbell

Heroism is a matter of integrity--becoming more and more at each step ourselves.

Rob Cohen

I think there's a love of infamy and heroism that doesn't play into the zeitgeist,

Albert Camus

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Harry Anderson

This is another blow. But we're actually walking a little taller because of the heroism at some of our hospitals.

Nic Buchanan

Everything before then was written off as savagery or barbarism. Any story that involved heroism was about white people.

Deena Burnett

The transcript really doesn't give you a sense of the heroism on that flight. I would like to have (the tape) released.

Nelson Mandela

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.

Michio Kaku

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Juvenal

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.