I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.
Todd Barry

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Kelly Miller

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
George Ryan

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.
Norman Lamm

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?
Lincoln Chafee

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Bill Walsh

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
Stand Watie

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
William Mulholland

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
Roger von Oech

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.
Howard Staunton

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Donald Rumsfeld

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
George Henry Lewes

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke