When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas Adams

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah Arendt

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.
Bobby Orr

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht

Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Denis Diderot

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Henry James

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher Hitchens

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.
Jerry Seinfeld

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
Neil Young