• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. by Publilius Syrus
  • Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. by Carl Sandburg
  • Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. by Napoleon I
  • Value your words. Each one may be the last. by Stanislaw Lec
  • Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others. by Johathan Sacks
  • Variety is the soul of pleasure. by Aphra Behn
  • Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. by Sir Robert Hutchinson
  • Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) by Gaius Julius Caesar
  • Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered by Julius Caesar
  • Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. by Dan Quayle
  • Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. by P. J. O'Rourke
  • Very little is needed to make a happy life. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. by Rmy de Gourmont
  • Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
  • Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. by Sun-tzu
  • Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. by Mahatma Gandhi
  • Victory belongs to the most persevering. by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. by Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
  • Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. by Johann von Goethe
  • Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
  • Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment. by Lord Newborough
  • Vigorous writing is concise. by William Jr. Strunk
  • Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. by Ellen Glasgow
  • Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. by Isaac Asimov
  • Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. by William Shakespeare
  • Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary. by Frederick Sherwood Dunn
  • Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue. by Socrates
  • Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure. by Marcus Valerius Martialis
  • Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. by Silius Italicus
  • Virtue is indeed its own reward. by Claudianus
  • Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. by Sir John Vanbrugh
  • Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. by Confucius
  • Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. by Confucius
  • Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. by G. K. Chesterton
  • Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm. by Denis Diderot
  • Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. by Siddha Nagarjuna
  • Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith. by Stephen S. Wise
  • Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled. by Willie Stone
  • Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. by Japanese Proverb
  • Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. by Japanese Proverb
  • Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. by Joel Barker
  • Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. by Portuguese Proverb
  • Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. by F Scott
  • Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live) by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly. by Samuel Beckett
  • Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind. by Florence Nightingale
  • Vote early and vote often. by Al Capone
  • Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat. (All the hours wound you, the last one kills) by Latin Proverb