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1 " Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and he tried not to think what he knew—that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds. "
― John Steinbeck , The Moon Is Down
2 " Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through. "
― P.G. Wodehouse , A Damsel in Distress
3 " Perfection is inexistent. It is the short-lived joy of muddling in the dips of a superficial life in a bid to bury who we really are. "
4 " Most of life’s big steps require a certain muddling through, a trusting that no one really knows the magical formula for the big firsts in life [Cram, Cusi, " ‘One Life to Live’ and 14 Beautiful Boys to Kiss," Cafe, January 14, 2015]. "
5 " The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddling our way toward frugality, simplicity, liberty, community, until some kind of sane and rational balance is achieved between our ability to love and our cockeyed ambition to conquer and dominate everything in sight. No wonder the galaxies recede from us in every direction, fleeing at velocities that approach the speed of light. They are frightened. We humans are the Terror of the Universe. "
― Edward Abbey , Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
6 " To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday. "
7 " You may not mean to, but you do seem to look down your nose at many of us mere mortals muddling along down here. I feel as though you think everyone should be better than they are. I certainly think you expect me to behave like some sort of perfect princess. But I’m just an ordinary girl who wants to grow up and find out where I belong in the world. "
― Emily Arden , Lover by Moonlight (Deception #1)
8 " The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable. "
9 " I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along. "
