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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Samuel Butler

Values are caught, not taught.

Dobson

Vanity is the greatest of all flatterers.

Francois, Duc de La Rochefourcauld

Varium et mutabile semper femina.
(A fickle and changeful thing is woman ever.)

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

Veni, vidi,vici.
(I came, I saw, I conquered.)

Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar)

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liquers in one go.

Truman Capote

Venus favors the bold.

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Remy de Gourmont

Vests are to suits as seat-belts are to cars.
Vice is its own punishment, and sometimes its own cure.

Thomas Fuller, M.D.

Vice is its own reward.

Quentin Crisp

Vices are their own punishment.

Aesop [Avaricious and Envious]

Vinegar in hand is better than halvah to come.

Persian proverb

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Salvador Hardin

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue would not go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois,

Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Jonathan Swift

Volcano: A mountain with hiccups.
Volenti non fit injuria.
(No wrong is done to a person who consents to it.)

Legal maxim

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.

English proverb

Vox populi, vox dei. (The voice of the people is the voice of God.)

Alcuin (letter to Charlemagne, 800 A.D.)

Vox populi, vox humbug.

Gen. William T. Sherman

Note: These sayings were compiled from a personal collection of assorted books and other printed sources, then carefully hand typed over a period of several years. You are free to copy them, but please include a link back to this page.

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