We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its… — John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related… — Leonard L. Berry Copy Share Image
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ...… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
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