Pastoral Resources

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

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.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.

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

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.