美德/堕落 Virtue/Decadence[英语名人名言]
[color=indigo] The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.-- Woody Allen
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
-- H. L. Mencken
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- Fran鏾is de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 [/color] GOOD.
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