If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

“If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.”

— Robert Lowell

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

— James Russell Lowell

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

— Patrick White

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

— Rumi

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

— Henny Youngman

“To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.”

— Karl Kraus

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

— Seth Godin

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We…

— Mitch Albom

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of…

— Tennessee Williams

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a…

— Kathryn Stockett

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne