The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Life with a daughter of nine through twelve is a special experience for parents, particularly mothers. In a daughter's looks, actions, attitudes,… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.” — Shabbeer Ahmed Copy Share Image
The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
