Quotes About Virtue

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers. — Marguerite, Countess of Blessington Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. — William Saroyan There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency—and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency—and a vice. — Mark Twain Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. — George Washington Woman’s virtue is man’s greatest invention. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Ask yourself not if this or that...

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Quotes About Truth

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. — Winston Churchill Truth burns up error. — Sojourner Truth Error moves with quick feet . . . and truth must never be lagging behing. — Alexander Crummell The race problem is a moral one . . . . Its solution will come especially from the domain of principles.  Like all the other great battles of humanity, it is to be fought out with the weapons of truth. — Alexander Crummell Absolute truth is incompatible with...

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Quotes About Trust

Trust everybody, but cut the cards. — Finley Peter Dunne Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry. — Oliver Cromwell A verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. — Louis B. Mayer (attrib.) Put not your trust in princes. — Psalms 146:3 Those you trust the most can steal the most. — Lawrence Leif I wonder men dare trust themselves with men. — William Shakespeare Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black mustache. — P. G. Wodehouse The louder he talked...

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Quotes About Temptation and Vice

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors, and those of the poor and lonely for crimes. — Marguerite, Countess of Blessington Why resist temptation?  There will always be more. — Don Herold Get thee behind me, Satan. — Matthew 16:23 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. — Matthew 26:41 The biggest temptation is...to settle for too little. — Thomas Merton I can resist everything except temptation. — Oscar Wilde There are terrible temptations...

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Quotes About Solitude

I want to be left alone. — Greta Garbo (attrib.) The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. — Cyril Connolly God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more. — Paul Valéry City life: millions of people being lonesome together. — Henry David Thoreau Be good and you will be lonesome. — Mark Twain Hell is other people. — Jean-Paul Sartre The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. — Henrik Ibsen Whosoever...

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Quotes About Silence

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we do our eyes. — Georg Christoph Lichtenburg It’s better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool rather than open it and resolve all doubt. — Abraham Lincoln Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. — George Eliot Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody is listening. — Franklin P. Jones Men of few words are the best men... — William Shakespeare If nobody ever said anything...

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Quotes About Religion

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. — Thomas Henry Huxley The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  It is the source of all true art and science. — Albert Einstein Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth. — H. G. Wells The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Havelock Ellis Religion is the opiate of the masses. — Karl Marx  [The yarmulke] is an indication...

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