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| 'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find in all the world, much less in woman-kind |
| Alexander Pope |
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| A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. |
| Buddha |
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| Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work |
| Thomas Paine |
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| I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
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| It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art |
| John Ruskin |
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| Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? |
| Laurence J. Peter |
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| Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. |
| Ambrose Bierce |
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| Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time |
| Voltaire |
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| Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age |
| Albert Einstein |
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| The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. |
| George Orwell |
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| There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside. |
| Richard Bach |
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| They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. |
| Winston Churchill |
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| You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean -- |
| Victor Hugo |
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