It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
~By Bill Parcells ~
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
~By Herbert Croly ~
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
~By Barry Commoner ~
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
~By Lu Xun ~
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
~By Antisthenes ~
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
~By Michael Novak ~
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.
~By Harriet Rosenstein ~
Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.
~By Theocritus ~
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.
~By Confucius ~
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
~By Lord Melbourne ~
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
~By Frank Langella ~
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
~By Ted Rall ~
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
~By Plutarch ~
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.
~By Elizabeth Gaskell ~
I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
~By T-Bone Burnett ~
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
~By Howard Coble ~
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.
~By Ron Moody ~
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
~By Edward Coke ~
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
~By Chevy Chase ~
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
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.
~By Katie Price ~
Dance must have a precision without fault.
~By Arielle Dombasle ~
God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.
~By Jim Bakker ~
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.
~By James Larkin ~
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
~By George Canning ~
I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.
~By David Kay ~
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
~By Otto Weininger ~
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
~By Arlo Guthrie ~
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
~By John Warnock ~
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.
~By Mike Rutherford ~
When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
~By Geoffrey Boycott ~
I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
~By Kristen Bell ~
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
~By Doris Lessing ~
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
~By Jean Paul ~
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
~By Kristin Scott Thomas ~
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.
~By John Mellencamp ~
The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.
~By Mark Russell ~
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
~By George Herbert ~
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
~By Plutarch ~
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
~By Helen Rowland ~
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
~By Quintilian ~
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
An artist is his own fault.
~By John O'Hara ~
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
~By Thomas Gray ~
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
~By Epictetus ~
I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
~By Camille Claudel ~
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
~By Edward de Bono ~
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
~By Henry Anatole Grunwald ~
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
~By Herman Hesse ~
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
~By Les Brown ~
So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.
~By Marie Osmond ~
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.
~By Shane Warne ~
But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
~By Davy Crockett ~
If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
~By Kate Adie ~
A fault is fostered by concealment.
~By Virgil ~
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
~By James Thurber ~
However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.
~By John Eaton ~
Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.
~By Richard Dooling ~
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
~By Ovid ~
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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