Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst than in the beginning of danger.

A brave captain is as a root out of which as branches the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

It is the nature of the strong heart that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.

The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Valor is abased by too much loftiness.

The first mark of valor is defence.

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

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.