None but great men are capable of having great flaws. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Never judge a work of art by its defects. They same is true with people.” — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some… — Katharine Hamnett Copy Share Image
Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in… — Carlos Beltran Copy Share Image
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!"… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results.… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
