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| The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. (Henry Miller) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Does 'anal-retentive' have a hyphen? (Alison Bechdel, Dykes to Watch Out For) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. (Winston Churchill) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary. (Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. (Charles Lamb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. (Chinese Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. (Matthew Arnold) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. (Hugh Prather) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. (William Shakespeare, King Lear) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. (Salvador Dali) | [▲] | [▼] |
| All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. (William Faulkner) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A good garden may have some weeds. (Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. (Stanley J. Randall) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. (Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Congratulations! You're not perfect! It's ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody's ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week. (Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. (Italian Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. (Martha Graham) | [▲] | [▼] |
| One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. (Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club) | [▲] | [▼] |