Faults Quotes - Page 22

• Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Home, Fault Finding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
  His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
  Not you, correct him.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Fall, Men

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.564

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• The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

  James Richardson

  Way, Best Way, Knows

  "Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays", No. 195, Book by James Richardson, 2001.

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• Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

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• I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me.

  Mason Cooley

  Use, Tolerate

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• I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

  Mason Cooley

  Special, Grudge

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• If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.

  Norm MacDonald

  Criticism, Bears, Endeavor

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• A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.

  Norm MacDonald

  Excuse, Disposition, Shows

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• Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Dark, Army, Water

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 9,

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• You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Quality, Want, Lively

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• A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little--always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Husband, Eye, Lovely

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• We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Receiving, Benefits

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• The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Men, Misery

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• There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Virtue, Figures, Wells

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• The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Opposites, Grace

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• The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Long, People

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• Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Perfection, Rivalry

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• God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Ignorant, Certain

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• Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Encounters, Insufferable, Shortcomings

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• I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Mean, Ideas

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Believe, Heart, Perfection

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Book, Loss, Journey

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.80, Library of America

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• He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

  Publilius Syrus

  Crime, Invites

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• He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Night, Men, Sky

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Fall, Passion, Good Luck

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