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You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities. — Joe Klein

A short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes! — Margaret Deland

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. — Cesare Lombroso

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. — Vladimir Nabokov

One of those middle-aged mediocrities so common in London clubs who have no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked by their friends; — Oscar Wilde

I may some day get a boyfriend and eventually a husband, but you will always be my first loves." -Sheetal, 14, Qatar — Jazmin Williams

I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. — Edmund Burke

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. — Thomas Carlyle

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments. — Steven Magee

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality. — Gary Shteyngart

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. — Criss Jami

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered. — Billy Barty

Purging trial, fidelities through storm, perseverance through mediocrities, and pursuit of Divine destiny through the allurements of earth. — Fulton J. Sheen

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. — Nguyen Cao Ky

Seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death — Brandon Scott Gorrell

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity. — Maurice Druon

The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years. — Robertson Davies

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding. — Adrian Rogers

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint. — Peter Shaffer

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde

The past is what it was in a flash — Isaiah Wallowingbull

Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making. — Laurence J. Peter

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life. — Juliana Hatfield

There's no love like the first. — Nicholas Sparks

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. — William James

Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities. — Yaron Brook

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. — Honore De Balzac