A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.
Stephen Potter

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
Christian Lous Lange

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

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
Mary Cheney

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Isaac Disraeli

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
Walter Salles

Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montaigne

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
John Olver

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
Edward James Olmos

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

Avarice is the vice of declining years.
George Bancroft

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Bernard de Mandeville

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke