Faults Quotes - Page 3

• To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wise, Learning, Mean

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 38, 1799.

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• Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

  Antisthenes

  Inspirational, Life, Advice

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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• Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Thyself

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• For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

  Haniel Long

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  Haniel Long (1968). “If he can make her so”

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• To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

  Robert Conquest

  Commitment, Thinking, Profound

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• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Weed, Marijuana, Excellence

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

  Preston Sturges

  Birthday, Theatre, Cards

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• If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Hate, Eye, Men

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• The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

  Jacques Delors

  Aggravation, Unions, May

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• It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.

  Brian Welch

  Heart, Broke, Get Away

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• To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

  Charles Churchill

  Want, Fame, Forfeit

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• Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

  John Mellencamp

  Depression, Sky, Unemployment

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• The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

  James F. Cooper

  Ambition, Simplicity, Abuse

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

  John Green

  Life, Stars, Grateful

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.148, Penguin

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• Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

  Theocritus

  Eye, Alaska, Lovers

  Theocritus (1767). “The Idylliums of Theocritus”, p.61

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• Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

  John Churton Collins

  Inspirational, Mistrust, Subordinates

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• My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Details, May, Plans

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• I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  History, May, Being Wrong

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• Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

  Bernard Berenson

  Life, Quality, Taught

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

  Ansel Elgort

  Stars, Wish, World

  "Fictional character: Augustus Waters". "The Fault in Our Stars", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.

  Katie Price

  Children, Men, Police

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• We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

  Billy Barty

  Dream, Passion, People

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• To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Heart, Average, Ideas

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• This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Thinking, Tests, Paranoia

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• Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Quality, He Man

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