“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python
Vices & Virtues
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
Anonymous It is better to be a coward for one minute than dead the rest of your life.
Irish proverb My smoking might be bothering you, but it's killing me.
Anonymous Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is perhaps the strangest.
De toutes les aberrations sexuelles, la plus singulière est peut-être encore la chasteté.
Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
Nos vertus ne sont, le plus souvent, que de vices déguisés.
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) Temptation laughs at the fool who takes it seriously.
Anonymous The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
Le mal que nous faisons ne nous attire pas tant de persécution et de haine que nos bonnes qualités.
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
P.J. O'Rourke (1947-2022) To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
Anonymous
