mediocre quotes

La mort n'est que pour les me  diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

- Alfred Jarry
  Gestes et opinions du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien, vol.8, pt.37.

A high church for the true mediocre.

- Norman Kingsley Mailer
  Of the FBI. The Presidential Papers,'Sixth Presidential Paper'.

   If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.

-Tom (Thomas) S Murphy
  In Fortune, 6 May.

   Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists:Titles'.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
Afterthoughts,'Art and Letters'.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque,'Crabbed Age andYouth'.