Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell
There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
William Shakespeare
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Hosea Ballou
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
William Ellery Channing
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
Henry David Thoreau
When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
Michel de Montaigne
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.
Seneca
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
Lao Tzu
If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.
Sydney Smith
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
Charles Caleb Colton
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.
Frances Anne
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire
President Bush played golf yesterday and I understand Vice President Dick Cheney also got in a couple of strokes
Jay Leno