Mistake Quotes - page 2

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. View quote
George Will
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. View quote
Umberto Eco
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. View quote
Ezra Pound
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. View quote
Steve Martin
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. View quote
Edmund Burke
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. View quote
Edmund Burke
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. View quote
Aleister Crowley
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. (W. H. Auden)
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. View quote
Carl Sandburg
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. View quote
Lester Bangs
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. View quote
Paul Valéry
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. View quote
Robert Fripp
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake. (Dean Acheson)
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. View quote
Bryan Ferry
Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake. View quote
Luis Barragán
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn. View quote
Earl Warren