V Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with V. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.”
“Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.”
“Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.”
“Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.”
“Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
“Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it”
Source: Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne
“Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.”
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
“Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.”
Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political
“Vice is basically the love of failure.”
Source: The Piano Teacher
“Vice is but a nurse of agonies.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.”
“Vice is its own reward.”
“Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.”
“Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.”
“Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.”
“Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.”
“Vice is punished, but virtue is not rewarded”
Source: Inside the Whale and Other Essays
“Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.”
“Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.”
“Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy
“Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher”
“Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.”
“Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.”
“Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that. And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit. The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress.”
“Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?”
“Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.”
“Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.”
“Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.”
“Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.”
Source: Ferraro: My Story
“Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.”
“Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.”
“Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.”
“Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.”
Source: Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?
“Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.”
Source: The Oceana and Other Works
“Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.”
“Vicente Bernabe DO graduated from Des Moines University with his Doctor of Osteopathy degree. He went on to intern at Doctors Hospital and completed his residency in Orthopedic Surgery at Ohio University at Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital. Vicente Bernabe DO has performed over five thousand orthopedic surgeries.”
“Vicente Fox, who succeeded Mr. Zedillo and was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, institutionalized the policy of ensuring that Mexican-Americans remained Mexican. In 2002, his government established the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (Institute for Mexicans Abroad) to promote “a more comprehensive approach” to promoting Mexican loyalty. One method was to invite Mexican-American elected officials to Mexico, to deepen their Mexican identity. In October 2003, for example, the Instituto invited 30 American state legislators and mayors for two days in Mexico City, where they met lawmakers, ministry officials, scholars, and advocates for immigrants. The Instituto had plans to bring 400 Mexican-American officials on similar trips every year.
The Instituto also sends representatives to the United States. Jacob Prado, counselor for Latino affairs at the Mexican Embassy, explained to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials that it was in “Latino officials like yourselves that thousands of immigrants from Mexico find a political voice.” He went on to explain: “Mexico will be better able to achieve its full potential by calling on all members of the Mexican Nation, including those who live abroad, to contribute with their talents, skills and resources.” American citizens who hold elective office in the United States are still expected to be “members of the Mexican Nation.”
One Instituto official is Juan Hernandez. Born in the United States, and therefore a US citizen, Mr. Hernandez was at one time a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, but made no secret of his real loyalties. In 2002 he wrote that he had “been commissioned to bring a strong and clear message from the president to Mexicans abroad: Mexico is one nation of 123 million citizens—100 million who live in Mexico and 23 million who live in the United States.” On ABC’s Nightline on June 7, 2001, he explained, “I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think ‘Mexico first.’ ”
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, who later became national security advisor to Vicente Fox, wrote in the Mexican newspaper El Siglo de Torreon that the Mexican government should work with the “20 million Mexicans” in the United States to advance Mexican “national interests.”
Vicente Fox’s interior secretary Santiago Creel once complained, “It’s absurd that (the United States) is spending as much as it’s spending to stop immigration flows that can’t be stopped . . . .”
When he took over in 2004 as the man in charge of border relations with the United States, Arturo Gonzalez Cruz explained that his ultimate goal was to see the border disappear entirely.
Mr. Fox himself insisted that any measure the United States took to arrest or deport illegal immigrants was a violation of human rights.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.”
“Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.”