Homer Quotes

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Bad company corrupts good character.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

The ways to enrich are many, and most of them foul.

Sir, the gentleman soils the spot he stands on.

This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent.

Evil will destroy itself.

When you mix raisins and turds, you've still got turds.

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

They that touch pitch will be defiled.

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

Everything in Rome has its price.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.

No one ever suddenly became depraved.