Defects Quotes
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
Jonathan Swift
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Aristotle
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
Edmonia Lewis
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Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.
Lord John Russell
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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
Tom Stoppard
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It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.
Maggie Shayne
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As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
William Cowper
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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?
Marcello Mastroianni
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Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
Blaise Pascal
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt
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The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
Martin Luther
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
Marian Wright Edelman
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The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.
Jesse Livermore
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If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.
Phil Crosby
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus
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It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect.
George Washington
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A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Jonathan Swift
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
Wietse Venema