quotes about imperfection

It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. ~Ecclesiastes 12:7



The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



Always be a little kinder than necessary. ~James M. Barrie



The first step... shall be to lose the way. ~Galway Kinnell



A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou



It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier



We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West



Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. ~Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion



A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown



It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ~Phillips Brooks



Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith



He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull



If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ~Pamela Vaull Starr



I bought a talking refrigerator that said "Oink" every time I opened the door. It made me hungry for pork chops. ~Marie Mott



I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself. ~Dennis Potter, 1978



I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. ~Dave Barry



Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine O'Hara



Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon