Mark Twain Quotes

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

When you're not successful, people look at the driver and say, 'what's wrong with him?' and sometimes the drivers look back and wonder 'what makes you think you're not the problem?'

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

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

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

People are very apt to shift the Blame off themselves, and lay it upon others, when perhaps they themselves are as much or more to blame. The popular Cry is against Merchants and Traders, as if they had ruined the Country; or against those who are or have been in the Government

Getting up and criticizing the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.

A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others.

When we make mistakes ourselves we hate to have other people notice them, but when the boot is on the other foot, we leave nothing unnoticed. The youngest child acts this way, and the greatest statesmen.

it’s very easy to blame people.

Criticizing presidents for weakess is standard in Washington because the world is a messy place and when bad things happen, Washington and the President can easily be blamed for them.

There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

Nothing is easier than fault finding.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.