Vices Quotes

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Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't go very far.

Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

My mother said "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said "Just wait."

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

I don't believe in astrology - of course that's very typical of Leos.

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire, (...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices

Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.

The rich can be "eccentric " the poor have to be considered "nuts."

If I only had a little humility I'd be perfect.

The ability to sin differs among people. For example a short-armed fisherman isn't as big a liar as a long-armed one.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

I never gossip but I can give you the names of certain people who do.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

He talks at the drop of a pause.

Deep down I'm really shallow.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.

When compelled to cook I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.

True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said "No bablo ingles."

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although judging from those around me I have every right to be.

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

Let's just say he has too many pigeons on his antenna.

I have my standards. They may be low but I have them.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions.

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

Show me someone who never gossips and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again and keep smiling.

When someone sings his own praises he always gets the tune too high.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Laugh and the world laughs with you snore and you sleep alone.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.