VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.]

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own.

Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel. - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.

His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.

Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

He who excuses himself, accuses himself.

That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.

Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front he has hung a heavy one full of other people's.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.