A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet. – Proverb
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. – Max Beerbohm
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poets bombast! – Jean De La Bruyere
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. – Thomas Carlyle
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole. – Frank Moore Colby
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. – Charles G. Dawes
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. – Benjamin Disraeli
Little things affect little minds. – Benjamin Disraeli
Only the mediocre are always at their best. – Jean Giraudoux
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. – Henry S. Haskins
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. – Joseph Heller
The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. – Eric Hoffer
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. – Robert G. Ingersoll
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. – James Russell Lowell
The worlds made up of individuals who dont want to be heroes. – Brian Moore
If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people. – Tom Murphy
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. – Blaise Pascal
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. – John Ruskin
Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed. – Walter Russell
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
