Defects

Famous quotes containing the word defects:

“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called “weasel words.” When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a “weasel word” after another there is nothing left of the other.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

“We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)