#wicked

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ↗

— Josh Billings

#god #most #neighbors #people #repent

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#believes #either #i #ignorant #insane

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#men #mingled #pit #place #tears

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked. ↗

— Epictetus

#believing #desire #good #wicked #you

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#case #commit #conduct #crime #doctrine

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#gun #his #horse #i #lessons

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#beaten #because #been #blows #encourage

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#because #body #cycle #even #get

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go! ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life

Why are we learning about the past, when this is History? ↗

— Galinda Glinda

#history #humor #past #random #wicked