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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Juvenal

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.

Andy Grammer

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

Saint Augustine

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Marquis de Sade

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Merle Shain

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William S. Paley

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Ron White

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Peter Lewis Allen

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Antoine Rivarol

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

William Falconer

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

David Brainerd

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Saint Augustine

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

Kacey Musgraves

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Elizabeth Taylor

Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.

Bill Engvall

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Moliere

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Winston Churchill

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

Edward Dahlberg

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Denis Diderot

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better!

Michelle Forbes

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Tallulah Bankhead

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Horace

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Samuel Butler

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

Rick Derringer