Vices(Related Subjects: Habits, Drinking, Food)

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) It is a great thing to know our vices. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ) Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. J. G. C. Brainard The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637 Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968) It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877), "Biographical Studies", 1863 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3