Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.
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Thiruvalluvar
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
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Mary MacLane
I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?
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Robert A. Heinlein
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
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John Locke
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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George Washington
More Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.