No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

No vice is so bad as advice.
Marie Dressler

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.
Al D'Amato

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
William Falconer

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
Andres Serrano

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.
Susan Estrich

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
Georges Bizet

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Mason Cooley

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
Ted Olson

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Arthur Erickson

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope