Fault Quotes
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I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before.
Heraclitus
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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
George Eliot
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We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.
Martin Luther
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Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
John Locke
Nazareth
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If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
Epictetus
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This is my fault. Give me the ball.
Bronko Nagurski
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If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
Lewis Carroll
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The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
Joseph de Maistre
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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves,' said Legolas. I have heard both,' said Gandalf.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.
Ernst Junger
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Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.
Helen Hunt
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.
John Ruskin
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If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
Epictetus
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Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.
David James
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Let us look for the good rather than try to discover any hidden evil. We can easily find fault in others if that is what we are looking for.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
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Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?
Emilia Lanier