Great Quotes - Funny Quotes - Love Quotes

Be inspired by our amazing collection of free proverbs, sayings and great quotes by famous artists, authors, writers, poets, philosophers and business people. The quotation database contains over 150,000 funny quotes, love quotes and motivational quotes that will do for any occasion. The database is constantly updated with new quotes, proverbs and sayings. Make sure to check our quotes regularly.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

QuotationsAuthorsTopicsKeywords

Search over 150,000 Quotations & Proverbs
Browse Keywords: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "V" » vices
«We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin | Keywords: haunted, illusions, images, primarily, put in, The Haunted, The Haunting, vices, weaknesses
«Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who has become happy by contracting the vices of the wicked?»
Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: been, Beggared, glorying, overcame, ravages, vices, wickedest
«When the passions become masters, they are vices»
Author: Blaise Pascal (Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist) | Keywords: Masters, The Passions, vices
«When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | Keywords: absence, Absences, at home, console, consoled, consoles, consoling, dwelling, endure, points, relatives, think of, vices
«Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.»
Author: Marquis De Sade (Novelist) | Keywords: batten, battened, consumed, equality, equilibrium, good and, host, immolate, intentions, lambs, perpetual, reaction, resulting, scheme, scheming, vices, victims, virtues, weak, wolves
«We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar»
Author: Publilius Syrus | Keywords: familiar, grown, rebuke, rebukes, rebuking, tolerate, vices
«We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.»
Author: Seneca | About: Passion, Virtue | Keywords: abate, abated, abates, account, acquired, an account, every night, infirmity, mastered, opposed, resisted, shrift, vices
Pages: « Previous 1 2 3 4
Sign up for the most comprehensive database of 800,000 pre-written papers and use them for your research. Order authentic term papers, essays, research papers, dissertations on any topic written by qualified writers.