Anthony Burgess Quotes

Enough or not...it will have to do

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

I consent to this constitution because I can expect no better.

You are what you settle for.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

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

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

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

The best is the enemy of the good enough.

Nobody was really happy but everyone could accept.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Who you are is what you settle for, you know?

I'll never feel like I've made it.

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.