
“There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 4.
“There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 4.
“Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.”
Source: Harvest of Stars (1993), Ch. 60
“[ There is a remedy for everything, could men find it. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 84
“Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn’t find anything to complain about.”
Source: Kindred (1979), Chapter 3, “The Fall” section 5 (p. 81).
“Never find fault with the absent.”
Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
Misattributed
“Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.”
"Eighth Air Force," lines 16-20
Losses (1948)
Context: For this last savior, man,
I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying?
Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.
“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”