Five Vices Quotes & Sayings

You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good — Jackie Ballard

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it. — Clyde Tombaugh

Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The term 'Savage' is, I conceive, often misapplied, and indeed, when I consider the vices, cruelties, and enormities of every kind that spring up in the tainted atmosphere of a feverish civilization, I am inclined to think that so far as the relative wickedness of the parties is concerned, four or five Marquesan Islanders sent to the United States as Missionaries might be quite as useful as an equal number of Americans despatched to the Islands in a similar capacity. — Herman Melville

What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know better or know more than God? — Mark Batterson

Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder , which can be briefly translated as The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one. — Alan Coren

I don't know if I believed in the war or not, Ari. I don't think I did. I think about it a lot. But I signed up. And I don't know what I felt about this country. I do know that the only country I had were the men that fought side by side. They were my country, Ari. Them. Louie and Beckett and Garcia and Al and Gio - they were my country. I'm not proud of everything I did in that war. I wasn't always a good soldier. I wasn't always a good man. War did something to us. To me. To all of us. But the men we left behind. Those are the ones who are in my dreams. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism, — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man. — Waller R Newell

I could write novels about her forever. Maybe when I die I will end up in the poem with her writing more poems about our times together.' The Diary — Jeremy Limn