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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
Every vice has its excuse ready.
Every vice has its excuse ready.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards read more
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too read more
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink
The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then read more
The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.