"To be popular one must be a mediocrity."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Mediocrity Quotes

“The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.”
“A break up is the closest thing to bereavement”

Source : Lindsey Kelk (2013). “Lindsey Kelk 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: About a Girl, I Heart New York”, p.34, HarperCollins UK
“Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities,”

Source : "Artur Davis, Former Democratic Congressman, Will Switch Parties", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2012.
“Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.”
“... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.”
“All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.”
“Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.”
“Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.”

Source : Luke Rhinehart (1998). “Dice Man”, p.10, The Overlook Press

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