FAULT QUOTES III

quotations about faults

Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.

MARK TWAIN

More Maxims of Mark


When you begin to excuse your faults, you are then beginning to respect them.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Some people have a way of making their faults pleasing, while others have a way of making their virtues repulsive.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


Men's graces must get the better of their faults as a farmer's crops do of the weeds--by growth. When the corn is low, the farmer uses the plough to root up the weeds; but when it is high, and shakes its palm-like leaves in the wind, he says, "Let the corn take care of them," for the dense shadow of growing corn is as fatal to weeds as the edge of the sickle.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Society and of Conversation"


We often appear unconscious of our faults, merely from frequency of viewing them.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Men sometimes reproach themselves with fancied faults, that they may be thought less guilty of real ones.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

speech, Jun. 14, 1953


Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738


We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


We confess small faults to insinuate that we have no great ones.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


Faults are more easily recognized in the works of others than in our own.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life


The bad points of others show out so strongly against the good that they usually strike our eyes before they wound us.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

The Vicar of Tours


We confess our faults in the plural, and deny them in the singular.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims


A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for the sake of them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe