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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
MAE WEST
Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office.
MAE WEST
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
MAE WEST
Virtue is its own reward.
CICERO
Virtue is its own reward.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!
ANONYMOUS
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
CLAUDIANUS
Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.
BILL DAVIDSEN
For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS)
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough
MAE WEST
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has n...
WALTER BAGEHOT
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
SILIUS ITALICUS
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward
BARUCH SPINOZA
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.
SILIUS ITALICUS
Every day has its own cereal box prize.
LESLIE MIKLOSY
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA
A plumber's idea of Cleopatra [Mae West].
W. C. FIELDS
Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you. Mae West: Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing.
MAE WEST
No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.
JONATHAN V. LAST
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it...
CARDINAL NEWMAN
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it...
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN
How do you do, Miss West? Mae West: How do you do what?
MAE WEST
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry...
QUENTIN CRISP
It has the taint -- no matter what the eventual (box office) numbers are -- of a loser, which is unf...
DAVID POLAND
An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West
LAINA CHARLESTON
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
JOHANNES TAULER
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The only reward of virtue is virtue
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Peace is its own reward.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Truth is its own reward.
PLATO
Vice is its own reward
QUENTIN CRISP
Love is its own reward.
VANNA BONTA
The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least, But each with...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r...
LORD BYRON
I win my awards at the box office.
CECIL B. DEMILLE
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Virtue is its own punishment.
ANEURIN BEVAN
Virtue is its own punishment
ANEURIN BEVAN
Virtue is its own revenge.
E. Y. HARBURN
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Even if you get a nomination for best picture but have no chance in hell of winning you can reap inc...
GITESH PANDYA
I heard they were carding people at the box office,
JAY REISS
People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.
JOHNNY DEPP
Honor is the reward of virtue.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
I'd give half my life for just one kiss. Mae West: Then kiss me twice.
MAE WEST
I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.
BLAKE EDWARDS
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
WILLIAM BENNETT
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. M...
FATTY ARBUCKLE
It's going to be a problem just coming to consensus at all. Every state has its own mixture of taxat...
SEEMA WILLIAMS
Right now studios are just happy to break even at the box office.
GITESH PANDYA
I've been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. Mae West, You must be awful tired.
MAE WEST
Today it's not culture; it's box office.
ALEX NORTH
Prime Office Products is a great fit with Staples, as Staples Contract continues its double-digit sa...
OWEN DAVIS
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it ...
ALBERT J. NOCK
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.
UNKNOWN
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler re...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never s...
CHARLOTTE CHURCH
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, b...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its...
SEANAN MCGUIRE
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
JEREMY TAYLOR
Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legis...
JOHN JAY HOOKER
It's a joke. The city of Key West is its own worst enemy.
JOHN JONES
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that ...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
Ever afternoon, me and Baby Girl set in the. rocking chair before her nap. Ever afternoon, I tell he...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle....
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
What's interesting is the increase in the sales price of homes, 13 to 14 percent, based on our offic...
DAVE NASH
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because w...
BARUCH SPINOZA
That's our sales office right there.
LARRY HART
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
JACKIE COOPER
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If you look at the demographic breakdown where sales occur, they are much heavier along the east and...
JAMES RICCI
The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK
I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure bl...
ELLEN PAGE
Today it's not culture; it's box office.
ALEX NORTH
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal rewa...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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