Perfection is the child of time.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Perfection is the child of time.

He is great enough that is his own master.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends.

He is a very humble man that thinks not himself better than some others.

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it more eyes to behold it but few hearts that rightly affect it.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe to sharpen the edge of it which otherwise would grow dull and blunt as good no scythe as no edge.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I'm chasing perfection.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.

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

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

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

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.