Washington Allston Quotes

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

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• I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Should

• Everybody is a teenage idol.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Teen
  • Everybody
  • Idol

• I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.'

  

  Tamala Jones
  • True
  • Girl
  • Favorite

• People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Me
  • Around

• I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Idol

• 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
  • Money
  • Enemy
  • Faults

• He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wife
  • Drinking
  • Faults

• I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Money
  • Age
  • Cold

• if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Kids
  • Soccer
  • Faults

• 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
  • Christian
  • Faults
  • Beads

• Men can make an idol of the Bible.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Bible
  • Idol

• We are very excited to have John join our growing team. In addition to being a great strategist, he brings experience in targeting sophisticated technology at specific market segments, and clearly communicating the value of that technology to each segment.

  

  Nancy Anderson
  • Experience
  • Excited
  • Brings

• In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

  

  Confucius
  • Faults
  • Vain
  • Charge

• Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

  

  Confucius
  • Faults
  • Faithfulness
  • No Friends

• The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

  

  Confucius
  • Real
  • Faults
  • Amend

• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

  

  Confucius
  • Fear
  • Faults
  • Abandon

• Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Faults

• 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
  • I Think
  • Reputation
  • Faults

• Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

  

  William Feather
  • Giving
  • Feelings
  • Faults

• My greatest idol– I’'ve always told everyone – was Robinho as he was from Santos and I was always following him, so I'’m a great fan. Among others, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Kaká. Many of them.

  

  Neymar
  • Fan
  • Idol
  • Ronaldo

• Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me?"

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Coffee

• People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees

  

  Kishore Kumar
  • People
  • Talking
  • Trees

• Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Widowhood
  • Defiles

• Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Faults
  • Idol
  • Addition