Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous1
My good intentions are completely lethal2. -- 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 follies3 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 anticipation4, 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 random5 acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices6 have very few virtues7. -- 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 virtuous8. 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 hypocrisy9. -- 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
Repentance10 is not so much remorse11 for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
