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| Mistakes:
The Lighter Side |
| Day | Mistake-Quote-of-the-Day |
1 |
"Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple
of mistakes."
--Steven Wright |
2 |
A good many young writers make the mistake
of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript
to come back in. This is too much of a temptation for the editor.
--Ring Lardner |
3 |
A lot of people mistake
a short memory for a clear conscience.
--Doug Larson |
4 |
A man of genius makes no mistakes.
His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
--James Joyce |
5 |
All men make mistakes,
but married men find out about them sooner.
--Red Skelton |
6 |
An expert is a man who has made all the
mistakes
which can be made in a very narrow field.
--Niels Bohr |
7 |
Don't be afraid to make a mistake,
your readers might like it.
--William Randolph Hearst |
8 |
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake
when you make it again.
--Franklin P. Jones |
9 |
I am being frank about myself in this book.
I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
--Henry Kissinger |
10 |
I don't want to make the wrong mistake.
--"Yogi" Berra |
11 |
I never made a mistake
in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
--Rudyard Kipling |
12 |
I really cannot know whether I am or am
not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put
up with the mistake, if it be one.
--George Gordon Byron |
13 |
If you can't make a mistake,
you can't make anything.
--Marva Collins |
14 |
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake
so great that it would take many men many months to equal it.
--Merle Meacham |
15 |
Lord, deliver me from the man who never
makes a mistake, and also from the man who
makes the same mistake twice.
--William Mayo |
16 |
Never mistake
endurance for hospitality.
-- Unknown |
17 |
One must be a god to be able to tell successes
from failures without making a mistake.
--Anton Chekhov |
18 |
People who don't take risks generally make
about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do
take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes
a year.
--Peter Drucker |
19 |
She had an unequaled gift. . . of squeezing
big mistakes into small opportunities.
--Henry James, Jr. |
20 |
That little white ball is always staring
back at you, daring you to make a mistake.
--Sam Snead |
21 |
The doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advice his client to plant vines.
--Frank Lloyd Wright |
22 |
The fellow who never makes a mistake
takes his orders from one who does.
--Herbert Prochnow |
23 |
The greatest mistake
I made was not to die in office.
--Dean Acheson |
24 |
The higher up you go, the more mistakes
you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered
to be your style.
--Fred Astaire |
25 |
The invention of the teenager was a mistake.
Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late
but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, nobody wants to live any other
way.
--Judith Martin |
26 |
There are two mistakes
one can make along the road to truth -- not going all the way, and not
starting.
-- Buddha |
27 |
Victory goes to the player who makes the
next-to-last mistake.
--Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower |
28 |
When a bureaucrat makes a mistake
and continues to make it, it usually becomes the new policy.
--James H. Boren |
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--Lewis Thomas |
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--Leon Trotsky |
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--Unknown |
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