Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.
Thomas Fuller
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler
To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
Anonymous
CHRISTIAN, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
Ambrose Bierce
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Thorstein Veblen
It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.
Johann Von Schiller
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Fran Lebowitz
Laws can discover sin, but not remove it.
John Milton
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Romanian Proverb
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Frank Moore Colby