Famous quotes containing the word perfect:
“So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.”
—Edward Dahlberg (19001977)
“There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.”
—Liu Shao-ChI (b. 1898)
“There stood the purple spires with no breath of air
Nor headlong bee
To disturb their perfect poise the livelong day
Neath the alder tree.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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