A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry A. Kissinger

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

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
Frank McCourt

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Ezra Pound

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
George Herbert

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson

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

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson

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

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
John Frusciante

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
Jurgen Habermas

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
Stanley Kubrick

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
Jesse Ventura

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Sarah Jessica Parker

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

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles