To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
~By Simone Weil ~
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
~By Frank Harris ~
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
~By James Truslow Adams ~
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
~By Anita Brookner ~
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 ~
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
~By Kate Smith ~
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
~By Tecumseh ~
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 ~
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.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
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 ~
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
~By William Collins ~
We didn't score any runs today. That's not my fault.
~By Danny Bautista ~
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
~By Dick Gregory ~
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
~By George Savile ~
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent.
~By Lou Ferrigno ~
I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.
~By Eva Braun ~
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
~By Plutarch ~
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
~By Lu Xun ~
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
~By Spike Lee ~
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
~By Ovid ~
I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
~By Moliere ~
Faultless to a fault.
~By Robert Browning ~
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
~By Henri Bergson ~
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.
~By Billy Barty ~
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
~By John McGraw ~
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 ~
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
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 ~
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
~By John Ruskin ~
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
~By Charles Churchill ~
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
~By Ferdinand Mount ~
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 ~
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
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 ~
I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
~By Heston Blumenthal ~
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
~By Doris Lessing ~
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
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 ~
We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.
~By Kelly Jones ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
~By Barry Sheene ~
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
~By John Henry Newman ~
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 ~
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
~By George Edmund Street ~
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 ~
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
~By Nellie Bly ~
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
~By Arthur Miller ~
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
~By Ramsey Clark ~
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
~By Howard Staunton ~
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
~By James F. Cooper ~
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
~By Rod Stewart ~
Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.
~By Theocritus ~
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 ~
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.
~By Andrew Eldritch ~
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.
~By Dennis C. Blair ~
Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
~By Sam Snead ~
People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
~By Adam Arkin ~
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.
~By Ron Kind ~
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
~By Charles Churchill ~
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
~By Tony Blair ~
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
~By Louis Nizer ~
I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
~By Amy Grant ~
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
~By George Herbert ~
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
~By John Breaux ~
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 ~
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
~By Branch Rickey ~
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
~By Henry Ford ~
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