Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. — Hannah More 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
“Flaws weren't pariah; foibles were badges of character. Not something to be brushed away in Photoshop.” — Peter Tieryas Liu Copy Share Image
“Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.” — Shabbeer Ahmed Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined. — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer. — Joseph Conrad 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
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences. — William Osler 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
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
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
You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and… — Joe Dante 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to… — Jonathan Cainer Copy Share Image
It’s what non-car people don’t get. They see all cars as just a ton and a half, two tons of wires, glass,… — Jeremy Clarkson 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
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
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
“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half… — Nora Ephron 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
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as… — Frank Kameny Copy Share Image
The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which… — Alexander Weinstein 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
