Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head.
It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we have no shortage of perfectly good reasons for why we just happen to be doing the same thing as those other people; they mindlessly conform, but we mindfully choose. This doesn't mean that we're all conformists in denial. It means that we regularly fail to recognize that others' thoughts and behaviors are just as complex and varied as our own. Rather than being alone in a crowd of sheep, we're all individuals in sheep's clothing.
This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.
My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.
Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.
Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.
Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.
States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.
