Term Vice

Famous quotes containing the words term and/or vice:

    No—is a term very frequently employed by the fair, when they mean everything else but a negative. Their yes is always yes; but their no is not always no.
    Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. M, Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 203 (April 1803)

    Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)