Norm MacDonald Quotes
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.Norm MacDonald
Quotes to Explore
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
F. Sionil Jose -
Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
Robert Farrell Smith -
Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
Jimmy Buffett -
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
Eliza Haywood -
if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
Naftali Bennett
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I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle -
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
Aristotle -
Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
Aristotle -
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Aristotle -
One is punished best for one's virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
Confucius -
The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
Confucius -
Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
Confucius -
Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
William Shakespeare -
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
William Wordsworth -
I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
Lord Byron
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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Philip James Bailey -
A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.
Euell Gibbons -
But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.
C. J. Mahaney -
The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.
Lao Tzu -
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
Norm MacDonald