Misprint Quotes

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. (Mark Twain)
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Though tragedy was in the process of becoming unreal and meaningless it seemed one was still permitted to remember the days when an individual life held some value and was not a mere misprint in a communiqué. View quote
Malcolm Lowry
Normally, misprints are either easily corrected or else so trivial that it makes no difference whether we play the correct or the faulty version. ... Nevertheless, on rare occasions, a misprint or slip of the pen may challenge our view of the musical language. These extreme cases may help us understand a little more about the way music acquires meaning, or what it means to say that the music makes sense. View quote
Charles Rosen