#vic

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#disputing #generally #get #good #more

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#each #good #habit #make #might

I'm a very vicious critic of myself. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#i #myself #very #vicious

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. ↗

— Robert Frost

#means #out #pressed #service #shape

I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#clothes #daughter #day #dress #eldest

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government? ↗

— David Frum

#competing #government #left #right #victim

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

#anywhere #beneficiaries #big #constituencies #farmers

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #bound #filth #government #governments

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#burlesque #difference #exposure #former #never

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#search #their #vices #virtue #your