We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had…

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

— Herman Melville

Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits…

— Kevin DeYoung

When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things…

— Andrew Lam

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which…

— Moliere

“Flaws weren't pariah; foibles were badges of character. Not something to be brushed away in Photoshop.”

— Peter Tieryas Liu

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you…

— Robin Williams

Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived…

— Thomas R. Pickering

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

— Kirby Wright

If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious…

— Jane Austen

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe