Mark Twain Quotes

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Less is only more where more is no good.

We do not have to make it perfect; we just have to do as best we can.

The right must ... yield to the expedient.

Government is the art of the momentarily feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

We must do as we may when we may not do as we would.

Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

The best is the enemy of the good enough.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

Something's always better than nothing.

Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family.

There's always going to be something. Can't be perfect.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.