Quotes of Misdeed - somelinesforyou

“ It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same. ”

- St. Teresa of Avila

“ History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. ”

- Voltaire

“ For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him. ”

- Bible

“ One crime is everything, two is nothing. ”

- Madame Dorothea Deluzy

“ Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. ”

- Juvenal

“ Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. ”

- Hannah More

“ So many laws argues so many sins. ”

- John Milton

“ Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ One is punished by the very things by which he sins. ”

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“ Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Small crimes always precede great ones. ”

- Jean Racine

“ Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. ”

- Lazarus Long

“ The heart that sins must sorrow. ”

- James Allen

“ Counting other people's sins does not make you a saint. ”

- Unknown

“ Some sins do bear their privilege on earth. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. ”

- Dwight L. Moody

“ Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ So many laws argue so many sins. ”

- John Milton

“ Proverty and wealth are comparative sins. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ The crime of loving is forgetting. ”

- Maurice Chevalier

“ There is no serious question that perjury and obstruction of justice are high crimes and misdemeanors. ”

- Bill Frist

“ The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time,... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. ”

- Ida B. Wells

“ I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. ”

- Bible

“ In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone i could think of. ”

- Paul Reubens
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