Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. From LearnThat.org. [George Bernard Shaw, Source: Man and Superman]
vice offends the moral standards of the community. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
When you moved from the title vice president to executive vice president, did your responsibilities change?. From Wordnik.com. [Omniture's John Mellor:] Reference
I was what they call a vice-president from Mississippi for many years. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Lucy Somerville Howorth, June 20, 22, and 23, 1975. Interview G-0028. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
On 1 August, 1776, the Government of Spain decided to establish what it called the vice-royalty of the River Plate, under. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
KING: What do we call the vice president's spouse?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Bob and Elizabeth Dole Discuss the State of American Politics - January 7, 2000] Reference
The terms vice and virtue have no signification for me. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
Obama for president and Clinton as his vice is intresting. From Wordnik.com. [Delegate update: Obama 10 delegates short] Reference
Looks like no vice is beneath the followers of the Sith Way. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Stupid] Reference
Stated they cut his finger off and placed his nuts in vice. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes or Villains?] Reference
My vice is paper – books, articles, research papers, clippings. From Wordnik.com. [Women Grow Business » Jump Start Your Productivity With Spring Cleaning] Reference
"It would be a new definition of the word vice in vice-president.". From Wordnik.com. [Dirty Laundry] Reference
But observe how vice is here seen consuming and exhausting itself. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
William Hazlitt said it best: The worst, inexcusable vice is hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush: “It’s Gonna Cost Whatever It Costs”] Reference
When vice is daring it is no time for virtue, through fear, to hide itself. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
HEMMER: She is the daughter of a former senator and a two-term vice president. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2004] Reference
Thus the word viscount was in Latin vice-comes, in itself a terrible admission. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914] Reference
I mean, I wouldn't want me or anybody I know as the vice-president of this country. From Wordnik.com. [Another Poll Puts McCain Up In Ohio] Reference
"This vice is worse than whisky, Madeleine; promise me that you will never play again.". From Wordnik.com. [Madeleine: An Autobiography] Reference
All of his money could not buy it for him. or is he just trying to John McCain vice president. From Wordnik.com. [Romney on Obama: the presidency isn't an 'internship'] Reference
The worse others are the better we should be; when vice is daring, let not virtue be sneaking. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
The second vice is that it habitually chooses vague woolly abstract nouns rather than concrete ones. From Wordnik.com. [Going forward into the future] Reference
For them, the difference between virtue and vice is determined on the basis of intent, not appearances. From Wordnik.com. [Sufism as youth culture in Morocco; under attack in Iran; counterpart of Islamic extremism] Reference
Almost every vice is forgiven in the tale, except for sloth, lack of imagination, and unwillingness to make money. From Wordnik.com. [Avatar: Believe the hype (review roundup)] Reference
At the same moment vice is equally applauded, if the expression of its most violent outbreaks be only vivid and intense. From Wordnik.com. [Three Discourses] Reference
Unless, these polls are a reaction to both Obama's speech and McCain vice presidential selection, which they may well be. From Wordnik.com. [Bounce - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
It is kind of like having those who have trouble gaining weight speaking for those who have trouble keeping it off (and again vice versa). From Wordnik.com. [colleen-i-fication and progress on high design] Reference
(1946-1953); chairman from 1955 to 1957; and again vice-chairman in 1959. From Wordnik.com. [René Cassin - Biography] Reference
I mean a vice is a vice and unfortunately it grows to become an addiction. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Living in the midst of so-called vice, I was at first both attracted and repelled. From Wordnik.com. [An Anarchist Woman] Reference
I asked him publicly if there is any "levee," that is, a vice district, in Jerusalem. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade] Reference
Wu Yang, a CIF director, was identified as a vice-chairman of Sinopec in a March 2006 UN report. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
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