Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate... →
Bruce Henderson
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without... →
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
Patrick Kavanagh
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
Ernst Lubitsch
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
Rene Magritte
We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.
Joe Manchin
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of... →
Vladimir Nabokov