[SirJohnBarleycorn]

"Perfect is the enemy of good"

What an utterly disgusting sentiment.

Try this one instead:

"There is no hope for the satisfied man."

You don't understand the phrase. It means expending all your effort on a hopeless attempt to achieve "perfection" can mean failing to actually achieve anything "good," leaving you stuck with the reality of the "bad."

[NCSteve]

You don't understand the phrase.

I understand it perfectly. It's inevitable corollary is, "Never strive for excellence, you might risk too much." It is the sentiment that causes conservatives and libertarians to settle for the lesser of two evils, which, as we are reminded, means they are still settling for evil.