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
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer 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
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
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of… — Kevin DeYoung 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
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
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
while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you… — Salman Rushdie 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
Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Love has a way of blinding even the sharpest minds. We don't look because we don't want to see. But once love… — Lionel Copy Share Image
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
