Foibles Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.
— Barbara Oakley
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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then…
— Paul Klee
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What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it…
— Alice McDermott
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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, metal, and rubber,…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
— Publilius Syrus
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
— Moliere
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We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can…
— Melody Beattie
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Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of…
— Kevin DeYoung
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This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and…
— Thomas R. Pickering
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In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the…
— Mariella Frostrup
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
— Hannah More
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Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and…
— Michael Crichton
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Love has a way of blinding even the sharpest minds. We don't look because we don't want to see. But once love is stripped away,…
— Lionel
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A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
— William Hazlitt
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I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
— Denise Mina
Who Wrote These Foibles Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 38 Foibles Quotes, led by these top contributors: