Better is the enemy of good.
Voltaire
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NOW IS GOOD Better is the enemy of best.
STAN BEECHAM Im A Good Friend, But Im A Better Enemy.
DONALD C HALL It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self.
MAX HAWTHORNE How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Good is the enemy of best.
JIM GENOVESE Perfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIRE The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The g...
OSWALD CHAMBERS The best is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIRE Good taste is the enemy of creativity
PABLO PICASSO Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
MEL BROOKS The best is the enemy of the good.
VOLTAIRE The best is the enemy of the good.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Remember Good is the Enemy of Great? This year, we need to say that Great is the Enemy of Excellent.
JOHN TORTORELLA The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
PABLO PICASSO The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
PABLO PICASSO The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
PABLO PICASSO The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
JOHN C. MAXWELL What Better Compliment Is There Than The Unnecesary Criticism Of Your Enemy.
DONALD LYNN FROST Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Only God is good."
"We can make good works,
We can be called good folks
We can ...
MAC CANOZA The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
PABLO PICASSO I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE it was an enemy of Islam and that if one is to carry out an operation it would be better to hit the ...
AHMED RESSAM If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) An open enemy is better than a false friend
GREEK PROVERB Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great i...
DAVID FOSTER One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
BILL WILSON Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
PABLO PICASSO The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
VOLTAIRE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homo...
TOM ROBBINS Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order
NORMAN SPINRAD Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VOLTAIRE The perfect may be the enemy of the good.
DAVID PEARLMAN Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam, an enemy of Muslims.
ABDEL AZIZ RANTISI A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
LOUIS A. BERMAN The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the b...
JERRY RICE One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall
CYRIL CONNOLLY He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his
worst enemy.
UNKNOWN Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes cle...
GRETCHEN RUBIN God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock ...
VOLTAIRE Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO The good is the Enemy of the best. Until you depart from the good, you cannot enter God's best for y...
PEDRO OKORO The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
ARABIC PROVERB The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
ARABIAN PROVERBS The enemy of your enemy is your friend.
GEORGE MIKHAIL The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
ARABIAN PROVERB The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
DAN WELLS Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Better an honest enemy than a false friend
GERMAN PROVERB One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
FRANK B. SHUTTS Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in respo...
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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or deba...
CATHY BETTER It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
VOLTAIRE It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
ORSON WELLES Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Money can't buy friends but it can get you a better class of enemy
SPIKE MILLIGAN the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
SUN TZU Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
JOHN UPDIKE Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
JOHN UPDIKE The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having
studied nature from his youth, knows the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.
IDRIES SHAH Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
JOSH BILLINGS Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend
JOSH BILLINGS Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face ...
ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrol...
VOLTAIRE You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.
VOLTAIRE To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, its bragging.
VANNA BONTA My Life is boring without God
GENEREUX PHILIPUX The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.
FRANK DELANEY We don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good. This is a good bill. Is it a perfect bill? Pr...
STENY HOYER The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
-The Seventy...
HOWARD TAYLER Ultimately it seems to do well for me, I seem to do better so instead of me being my own worst enemy...
RICHARD MARX Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the e...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
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