Quotes
Quotes about Vice
You have to protect the privacy of the advice you get, or you'll never get the advice you need.
Everywhere children are schooled to become masters at answering questions and to remain novices at asking them.
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.
Foot: A device for finding furniture in the dark.
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.
Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
Vegans need no pricegouging animal abusing Pfizer Vegans want no domestic battering accident causing Budweiser* Vegans need no services from corrupt Impermanente Kaiser.
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.
Vice President Dick Cheney is currently out in South Dakota on a three-day hunting trip. What better place for a man who has had four heart attacks than to be carrying a big gun and a backpack through the snow looking for red meat.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers, Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her; And, where I thought the remnant of mine age Should have been cherished by her childlike duty, I now am full resolved to take a wife And turn her out to who will take her in.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
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.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.
To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.
