Nobody is Perfect ~ Proverbs on Imperfection
Every man has his faults.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
No man is infallible.
To err is human. (The proverb predates Pope's well-known line "To err is human: to forgive, divine." An essay on Criticism, 1711)
If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything. (First recorded in the early 20th century.)
Every man is mad on some point.
He rides sure that never fell.
He stands not surely that never slips.
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. (Although the saying is often associated with Mr. Micawber in Dickens's David Copperfield (1850), there are several earlier citations.)
Arthur could not tame woman's tongue. (A reference to King Arthur.)
Tomorrow: Nothing is Perfect.
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