Quotes About Hair's breadth

A miss is as good as a mile.

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

How, then, are we to class this strange amalgam of criticism and credulity? What purpose can it serve? To whom will it appeal? Whose beliefs will it alter even by a hair's breadth?

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.