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And one by one in turn, some grand mistake,
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.—BYRON, Don Juan
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Any man may make a mistake;
none but a fool will persist in it.—CICERO, Philippicae
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Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.—CHURTON COLLINS, Aphorisms
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There is a glory
In a great mistake.—NATHALIA CRANE, Imperfection
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Mistakes are often the best teachers.—FROUDE, Short Studies on Great Subjects
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables
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Senator, I ordinarily make good appointments. I think I have made very few mistakes. But when I make a mistake, it's a beaut.—FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA, Commenting before a Senate Comm.; referring to Judge Herbert A. O'Brien.
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.—PLUTARCH
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The wrong sow by the ear.—Proverb
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Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.—Proverb
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A miss is as good as a mile.—Proverb
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Leave no rubs nor botches in the work.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
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To make mistakes as we are on the way to knowledge is far more honourable than to escape making them through never having set out to seek knowledge.—R. C. TRENCH, The Study of Words
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There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.—DUKE OF WELLINGTON
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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.—OSCAR WILDE, Picture of Dorian Gray
