Faults Quotes - Page 28

• We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Littles, Great Ones

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 327, 1678.

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• My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film.

  A. O. Scott

  Wrath, Years, Adults

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• The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Evil, Water

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• I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Mean, Men

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• I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

  Brigham Young

  Country, Angel, Men

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• It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.

  J. C. Ryle

  Kings, Rip, Writing

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.309, Whitaker House

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• The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

  Warren Buffett

  Disappointment, Lessons, Managers

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• If you're raised in a household where questions are encouraged, you're the minority. It's sad. One of the things that has resonated the most for me is that, in the '50s, if your sex life was unfulfilling, it was your fault, as a woman. It was never the man's fault. Millions of women thought they were working with faulty equipment. If they couldn't have orgasms from having sex with their husbands, then they were broken. That's insane, and everybody believed it.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Sex, Husband, Men

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.

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• Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Suspicion, Great Ones

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Justice, Ordinary, Each Day

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

  Mark Twain

  Knives, Perfect, Teeth

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Majesty, Praying

  John Calvin, Jean Calvin, Thomas Boston (1996). “Sermons on Galatians”, Banner of Truth

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• We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Long Ago, Unity

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• Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own.

  Max Anders

  Effectiveness, Sometimes, Believer

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• As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Long, Faces, My Own

  Twitter post from Nov 25, 2014

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• Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system, then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or reelected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Welfare Programs, Relief, Needs

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Growing Up, Children, Believe

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• As the book writer for one big smash and one big smelly flop, I always wondered if anyone knows just what goes into making a great musical. When a show is a hit, the critics trip over themselves not knowing who to laud and applaud the loudest. It's that marvelous score, those urbane lyrics, that irreplaceable star. But only when a show is a flop, does anyone notice the book writer. And then it's always our fault.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Book, Knowing

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Heart, Humble, Dwelling

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• Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Laughing, Church

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• Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our faults, our weaknesses, our limitations. And our mind is such a traitor! What does it? It covers our faults even from our own eyes, and points out to us the reason for all our difficulties: others! So it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and pushes us towards those others to fight them, showing them to us as our enemies.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, War, Eye

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• When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them

  Confucius

  Do Not Fear

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• Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

  Samuel Johnson

  Together, Lines

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• If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.

  Philip Doddridge

  Love You, Ifs

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• Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, Heart, Trying

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.34, Delphi Classics

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