''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
Everything is perfect in the universe — even your desire to improve it.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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.
It is no crime not to be perfect
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.
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.