Virtue

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Virtue
Excellence
Faults
Vice
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
James Goldsmith
Virtue
Apathy
Neighbors
Tolerance
Weakness
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Thomas Gold
Age
Virtue
Being
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
Walter Gilbert
Power
People
Knowledge
Virtue
Religious
Sense
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
Paul Getty
Virtue
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin
Age
Virtue
Contempt
Hair
Nothing
Old
Respect
Vice
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
Life
Virtue
Evil
Meaning
Nothing
Order
Will
Words
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi
Forgiveness
Virtue
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Virtue
Modesty
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
People
Virtue
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Art
Knowledge
Virtue
Children
Concern
Manners
Parents
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Virtue
Vices
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright
Power
Virtue
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Christopher Fry
Poetry
Time
Virtue
Attention
Being
Prose
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
James Anthony Froude
Virtue