Quotes with defects

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal party, his party must in the issue fall with him.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

If we had no defects ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

In the intercourse of life we please, often, more by our defects than by our good qualities.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.

Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects. It is fortunate for us, however, that Nature is so imperfect, as otherwise we should have no art at all. Art is our spirited protest, our gallant attempt to teach Nature her proper place.