Quotes on mistakes

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

~ Mark Twain

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I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

~ Woody Allen

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I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

~ Joyce Kilmer

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

~ Oscar Wilde

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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

~ La Rochefoucauld

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Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.

~ Johann von Goethe

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He who knows little quickly tells it.

~ Italian Proverb

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The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.

~ John Holt

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Many admire, few know.

~ Hippocrates

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