Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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61–80 (162)
tiny.ag/zo3ef1r2 · submitted 1997
Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
tiny.ag/tqbfx5vp · submitted 1997
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
tiny.ag/v7xs8s9o · submitted 1997
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
tiny.ag/mltkwzme · submitted 1997
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/uj7gzt1i · submitted 1997
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
tiny.ag/bungm82p · submitted 1997
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · submitted 1999
I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/17uoj5hx · submitted 1997
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
tiny.ag/qnvx9otp · submitted 1997
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
tiny.ag/mbwozhf6 · submitted 1997
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
tiny.ag/2p8s4z0u · submitted 1997
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
tiny.ag/fm3etwy0 · submitted 1997
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
tiny.ag/tsfy8mui · submitted 1997
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
tiny.ag/7hdzmwue · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/iudoprdc · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/mnliphwg · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
tiny.ag/psiwplgd · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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