Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.[Victor Hugo] Quote:The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don?t write about Man, write about 'a' man.[E.B. White] Quote:Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.[Bill Cosby] Quote: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.[Thomas Paine] Quote:A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher.[Socrates] Quote:Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't![George Bernard Shaw] Quote:That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.[Erica Jong] Quote:A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.[Joseph Addison] Quote:The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.[Gene Brown] Quote:What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.[Henry Ford] Quote:Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. [Seneca] Quote:Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:[Advice is] what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. [Aesop] Quote:Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. [John F. Kennedy] Quote:It is a great thing to know our vices. [Cicero] Quote:Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. [Tallulah Bankhead] Quote:Ask advice only of your equals. [Danish Proverb] Quote:It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. [Anne Tyler] Quote:People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. [Brendan Francis] Quote:He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. [Edna St. Vincent Millay] Quote:I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. [Rene Descartes] Quote:Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. [English Proverb] Quote:Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. [Lucius Accius] Quote: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] Definitions of: viceDefinition: A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.Definition: A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance. Definition: The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity. Definition: To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. Definition: Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc. |
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