Quotes
Quotes about Vice
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, a friend.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Practice no vice because it's trivial. Neglect no virtue because it's so.
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Dictionary: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
