“I suggest that you not ignore many possible candidates who are still developing these attributes, seeking the one who is perfected in them. You will likely not find that perfect person, and if you did, there would certainly be no interest in you. These attributes are best polished together as husband and wife.”
“American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
“The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.”
“No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.”
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”