Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
vices
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
There has never been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency.
vices consistency
We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!
We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
The general tendency to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.
Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
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