Quotations

«Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.»

«Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice»

«To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.»

«Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do something so well that no one could find fault with it»

«There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.»

«Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? / Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? / Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? / What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: / And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, / Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? / As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.»

«Never find fault with the absent.»

«There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault»