The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
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 ~
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
~By Mason Cooley ~
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
~By Louis Nizer ~
It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
~By Will Cuppy ~
It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
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.
~By Robert Conquest ~
Faultless to a fault.
~By Robert Browning ~
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
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 ~
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
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 ~
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
~By William Shakespeare ~
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
~By James Hillman ~
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
~By Sarah Palin ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
~By Spike Lee ~
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
~By Barbara Cartland ~
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
~By Bill Moyers ~
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
~By Doris Lessing ~
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
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 ~
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
~By Charles Churchill ~
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 ~
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 ~
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."
~By Helen Rowland ~
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.
~By James Laughlin ~
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
~By Simon Travaglia ~
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 ~
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 ~
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~By Voltaire ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
~By Moliere ~
An artist is his own fault.
~By John O'Hara ~
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
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 ~
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
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 ~
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 ~
Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
~By Joy Page ~
The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
~By Richard Armour ~
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.
~By Harriet Rosenstein ~
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
We didn't score any runs today. That's not my fault.
~By Danny Bautista ~
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
~By Sydney Smith ~
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
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 ~
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 ~
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
~By Ted Rall ~
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 ~
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 ~
Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
~By Helen Rowland ~
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
~By Yogi Berra ~
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 ~
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
~By Matthew Prior ~
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.
~By Theocritus ~
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
~By Henry Ford ~
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
~By Kelly Millar ~
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
~By Antisthenes ~
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 ~
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
~By Ramsey Clark ~
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
~By Arlo Guthrie ~
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
~By Frank Langella ~
I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
~By Heston Blumenthal ~
Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
~By Frieda Lawrence ~
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
~By Ty Cobb ~
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
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 ~
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
~By John Mortimer ~
She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.
~By Bugs Baer ~
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
~By Luke Ford ~
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