Quotes About Mistake

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

I knew I shouldn't have given @50cent pitching advice...sorry man

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

Individuality in dressing is not important to men. If they all look alike it means they haven't made a mistake.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

ThereÂ's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that heÂ's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.