Perfect Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old perfect quotes, perfect sayings, and perfect proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

We have the freedom to live the good life if we choose to embrace grace, not perfection. Emily Ley
Not being perfect is absolutely perfect. Andrée Nicole
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. Mark Victor Hansen
In all this foolish world no creature is so perfect a fool as a woman--excepting always a man. Evan Esar
No one is perfect. except the man who makes a perfect fool of himself. Evan Esar
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us. Benjamin Jowett
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. Somerset Maugham
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. Delacroix
The husband who expects his wife to perfect also expects her to understand why he isn't. Evan Esar
The only perfect people are those we do not know. Evan Esar
Perfection is a mixed blessing: an imperfect friend is preferable to a perfect stranger. Evan Esar
You can be perfect. Just choose when that is going to be and for how long then do it perfectly and get over it. Monica L. Wofford
Perfection is the enemy of good. Gustave Flaubert
Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux
Flaws and imperfections are parts of the total desired look. David Wenger
There is no perfect marriage, for these are no perfect men. French
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. Geroge Bernard Shaw
To an engineer, good enough is perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. Alexander Calder
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. John Ruskin
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michaelangelo
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection. Agnetha Fatlskog
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that the're not. Jodi Picoult
Practice makes perfect, so practice to be perfect. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
I'm not perfect, and I like everyone equally who is not perfect. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. William Goldman
Just because you're not perfect, doesn't mean you're not beautiful. Zany Malik
Would you destroy something perfect in order to make it beautiful? Gerard Way
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. George Bernard Shaw
At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. David Levithan
Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments. Kia Carrington-Russel