Sayingszone

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, “He who hates vice hates mankind.”

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners – your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards – who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t; it just keeps you from enjoying it.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

Virtue is its own revenge.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can’t separate them. They’re wedded.

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.

A man hasn’t got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

The excess of virtue is a vice.

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Water which is too pure has no fish.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Some folks wear their halos much too tight.

What, after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.

I dream of hiking into my old age.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around.

A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

You need special shoes for hiking – and a bit of a special soul as well.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that’s the problem.

Make your feet your friend.

I’m the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it – really get my heart pounding.

He who limps is still walking.

[We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

Your body is built for walking.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down.

Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

If you pick ‘em up, O Lord, I’ll put ‘em down.

Walking is good for solving problems – it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists.

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.

After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-three today and we don’t know where the hell she is.

Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.

The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

[Hiking] is the best workout!… You can hike for three hours and not even realize you’re working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

Water flows uphill towards money.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.

Filthy water cannot be washed.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

The great sea makes one a great sceptic.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen’s cafe.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Rainbows apologize for angry skies.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Weather is a great metaphor for life – sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.

Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.

I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday.

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

When snow falls, nature listens.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.

My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.

Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.

The really nice breezes blow through my body and into my soul.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Where does the white go when the snow melts?

A snowflake is one of God’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

There’s one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor’s.

Perfect winter weather is a great caffeine, while perfect summer weather is the best sedative.

Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life.