Vice Quotes

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

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

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.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

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

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

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

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

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

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

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

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.