How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Votes: 4
Benjamin FranklinFaults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature. Votes: 3
Pearl Mary Teresa CraigieA Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late! Votes: 3
Arthur GuitermanFaults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] Votes: 3
HoracePsychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. Votes: 2
Laurence J. PeterIf you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. Votes: 2
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonAnd oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareAll the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Votes: 2
Francois de La RochefoucauldI think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect. Votes: 2
Spike LeeEvery man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends. Votes: 2
Henry AdamsNegroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Votes: 2
Ethel WatersTis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. Votes: 2
Benjamin FranklinJealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. Votes: 2
Gene TierneyIt is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. Votes: 2
Marcus Tullius CiceroA man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. Votes: 2
John Henry NewmanThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess Votes: 1
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense Votes: 1
Publius Cornelius TacitusWe see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it Votes: 1
Jean de la BruyereYesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality. Votes: 0
B.J. NeblettWhy do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection. Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneWe easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldCertain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOur own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Votes: 0
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldSome people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. Votes: 0
Madame de StaelTo many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergVulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerHe that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater. Votes: 0
Thomas a KempisEverything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. Votes: 0
Anna FreudWe easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldA friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults Votes: 0
Mario PuzoOf all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldChance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldOnly those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineParents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. Votes: 0
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteWe confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldSmall faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyParents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. Votes: 0
Marie Von Ebner EschenbachEvil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience. Votes: 0
John of KronstadtWomen see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortOne mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinIf you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIt requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. Votes: 0
Jean Antoine Petit-SennGreat men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorWe endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldSolemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldHe loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldBlessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others. Votes: 0
Ali ibn Abi TalibI criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyA wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillMen who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Votes: 0
Kahlil GibranHappy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. Votes: 0
Edmund WallerMen who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranWe only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldDon't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. Votes: 0
Logan Pearsall SmithTo copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillPublish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute. Votes: 0
SaadiI have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantMy loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranWrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues. Votes: 0
William A. DembskiMost of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldA human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldDwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaI always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults. Votes: 0
Lindsay LohanYou crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. Votes: 0
MartialTime shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareEveryone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. Votes: 0
Jean de La FontaineTime shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. Votes: 0
William Shakespearesometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. Votes: 0
Maria EdgeworthWere we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldYou don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. Votes: 0
William FaulknerThe United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country. Votes: 0
Spiro T. AgnewA hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it. Votes: 0
Colin CotterillTo copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillWe are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersOur faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth. Votes: 0
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyOne of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others. Votes: 0
Geshe Kelsang GyatsoThe blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works. Votes: 0
John CalvinMen ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroWomen will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. Votes: 0
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonLook, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect. Votes: 0
Nancy GraceEvery man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherJust so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterWe love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner. Votes: 0
Cyrus the GreatBy amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind. Votes: 0
HuinengHad we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. Votes: 0
Francois FenelonThe inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. Votes: 0
Chris HedgesIf we love each other enough, we will bear with each otherâs faults and burdens. Votes: 0
Dorothy DayIf my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse Votes: 0
Leanda de LisleThe best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of. Votes: 0
James RichardsonA rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth. Votes: 0
Abraham VergheseWith your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place? Votes: 0
Henri MichauxForgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Votes: 0
Phillips BrooksWhoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others. Votes: 0
SaadiA man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergAs nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. Votes: 0
Henry Home, Lord KamesNo man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherIn the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldStupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderIf you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults. Votes: 0
Charles E. FullerWe are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonAfter people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person. Votes: 0
Ann AguirreWe can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults. Votes: 0
Edmund GibsonMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense. Votes: 0
TacitusWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. Votes: 0
Eldridge CleaverTo what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensTears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. Votes: 0
Italo SvevoHow easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaThe fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. Votes: 0
EpicurusI work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies. Votes: 0
Bill MoyersA mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultKeep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others Votes: 0
Richard BaxterScan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass. Votes: 0
George HarrisonWe all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisAll models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions. Votes: 0
Myron ScholesMany of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. Votes: 0
RumiI have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. Votes: 0
Frank LangellaWhat we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWorse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. Votes: 0
EuripidesThe honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities. Votes: 0
Giuseppe MazziniIf the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. Votes: 0
Thomas GrayOf all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important. Votes: 0
Simon TravagliaWe only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIf we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldGod loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenI'm going to show you my faults, I'm going to show you my insecurities, I'm going to be real. Votes: 0
Kevin DurantAs long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own. Votes: 0
Tullian TchividjianLet us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults. Votes: 0
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonLet me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me. Votes: 0
Edgar GuestIt is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults. Votes: 0
Auliq IceWe are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinI have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast. Votes: 0
Aaron LevieNobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterIf we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIf you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonIt is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeAs a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults. Votes: 0
L. Frank BaumWe must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoI made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him. Votes: 0
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