Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
Tryon Edwards

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Terry Prachett

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
Ferdinand Mount

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert Spencer

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Marguerite de Valois

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
David Prowse

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.
Joshua A. Norton

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
David Herbert Lawrence

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
Craig Johnston

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.
Peter Tork

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
James J. Corbett

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

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
Emily Carr

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
John Drinkwater

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.
Isaac Butt