• If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.2 · 6 votes · 36 reads

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• If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 46 votes · 32 reads

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• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 17 votes · 177 reads

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• It is no crime not to be perfect

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 41 votes · 173 reads

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• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 144 reads

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• Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.3 · 5 votes · 94 reads

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• No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

  

  English proverb

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  3.3 · 7 votes · 129 reads

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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

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 64 votes · 172 reads

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• No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 5 votes · 0 reads

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• No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.8 · 53 votes · 18 reads

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• One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.3 · 60 votes · 22 reads

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• Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 174 reads

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• Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.3 · 11 votes · 45 reads

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• Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.6 · 25 votes · 170 reads

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• Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.0 · 41 votes · 60 reads

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• Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 83 reads

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• Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.8 · 31 votes · 74 reads

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• Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 193 reads

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• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 19 reads

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• The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.4 · 8 votes · 15 reads

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• The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 58 reads

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• The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 1 reads

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• The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  4.0 · 25 votes · 147 reads

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• The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 35 votes · 48 reads

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• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 187 reads

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• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.7 · 51 votes · 171 reads

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• Virtue is harmony.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 44 votes · 195 reads

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