Vice - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60526<![CDATA[If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60527<![CDATA[Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60528<![CDATA[This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60530<![CDATA[Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60531<![CDATA[One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60520<![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60521<![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60522<![CDATA[Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60523<![CDATA[There will be vice as long as there are men. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60524<![CDATA[We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60525<![CDATA[O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauty's veil doth ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60512<![CDATA[Many without punishment, none without sin. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60513<![CDATA[The willing contemplation of vice is vice. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60514<![CDATA[It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60515<![CDATA[The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60516<![CDATA[Wild oats make a bad autumn crop. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60517<![CDATA[Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60518<![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60519<![CDATA[The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60508<![CDATA[Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60509<![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60510<![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60511<![CDATA[Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60505<![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60506<![CDATA[Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen; Yet seen ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60507<![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500<![CDATA[What maintains one vice would bring up two children. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60501<![CDATA[Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60502<![CDATA[We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60503<![CDATA[A vice is a failure of desire. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60504<![CDATA[Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60497<![CDATA[To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60498<![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60499<![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492<![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60493<![CDATA[We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60494<![CDATA[Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60495<![CDATA[Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60496<![CDATA[He hadn't a single redeeming vice. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60484<![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60485<![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60486<![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60487<![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60488<![CDATA[He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60489<![CDATA[Vice is its own reward ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60490<![CDATA[The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51343<![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15252