FAULTS

Quote: It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. Author: Georg Hegel 1770-1831, German Philosopher

Quote: I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. Author: Jimmy Hoffa 1913-1975, Brazilian-born American Labor Leader

Quote: While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. Author: Ben Johnston

Quote: Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. Author: Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695, French Poet

Quote: If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: Only the great can afford to have great defects. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: Fools can find fault, but they can't act anymore wisely. Author: Langbien

Quote: Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. Author: Byron J. Langenfield

Quote: Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. Author: Doris Lessing 1919-, British Novelist

Quote: It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. Author: Russell Lynes 1910-, American Editor, Critic

Quote: Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. Author: Marcus Valerius Martial 40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

Quote: Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones. Author: Jean Paul

Quote: The essence of a man is found in his faults. Author: Francis Picabia 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet

Quote: No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves. Author: Proverb

Quote: Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin

Quote: Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others. Author: Pennsylvania Dutch Proverb

Quote: Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself. Author: Scottish Proverb Sayings of Scottish Origin

Quote: A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.'' Author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist

Quote: The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author

Quote: Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection. Author: Marquise De STVignT

Quote: Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: Men's faults to themselves seldom appear. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. [Measure For Measure] Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: Faults are beauties in a lovers eye. Author: Theocritus

Quote: A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: A spirit to find fault is an enemy to your peace and comfort, and also to the happiness of those around you. It is the key to your destruction. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope Author: Source Unknown

Quote: We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

Quote: None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Quote: Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them. Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

Quote: The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

Quote: Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

Quote: The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

Quote: The real fault is to have faults and not amend them. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

Quote: When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

Quote: He has not a single redeeming defect. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Quote: A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Don't find fault, find a remedy. Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company

Quote: A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: A good garden may have some weeds. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

Quote: A fault is sooner found than mended. Author: Ulpian Fulwell

Quote: People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. Author: Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865, British Novelist

Quote: Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

Quote: There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

Quote: Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Author: Margaret Halsey 1910-, American Author

Quote: It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist