It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldnt say.

Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything but warned near it.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

The average sparrow is somethiing of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

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

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.