Pastoral Resources

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

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.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

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

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

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.