It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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.
I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
I was born in 1947, and my generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
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.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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.
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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.
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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.
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.