Faults Quotes - Page 25

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

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

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.

I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.

When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.

I love comic books - maybe to a fault sometimes.

I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.