Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
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Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
Dutch Proverb
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
William Shakespeare
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
William Shakespeare
Faults are soon copied.
Horace Mann
Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.
Benjamin Franklin
Pride is the mask we make of our faults.
Hebrew Proverb
I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
William Hazlitt
Women have to be honed to perfection. Guys can have faults.
Beverly Ulbrich
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman
Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
Charles Churchill
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
Matthew Prior
Nobody is perfect in this world; everybody has their faults.
Kris Everson
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
Ambrose Bierce
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.
Anatole France
Never criticize your spouse's faults; if it weren't for them, your mate might have found someone better than you.
Jay Trachman
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
Bob Edwards
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Antisthenes
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Francois Fenelon
Focus on remedies, not faults.
Jack Nicklaus
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Francis Picabia
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Charles Churchill
Frank: All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Arthur: Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
Frank Harris
Rare sitcom wife who has her own paranoia and faults and downfalls.
Patricia Heaton
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
Hugh Prather
Despite all the faults, it's still really important to [my] everyday life.
Charlie Scott
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
Unless I accept my virtues, I most certainly will be overwhelmed by my faults.
Robert Coleman
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
Thomas Gray
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Jewish Proverb
It?s probably one of many undiscovered faults. We don?t know much of what?s beneath us.
Michael Hansen
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark
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