There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
-Agatha Christie
Quotations
Mistake
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
A human being is absolutely independent; therefore whatever happens to him
is completely his own responsibility. The one who holds others responsible,
repeatedly commits the same mistakes again and again.
-Deep Trivedi
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope
"Swift: Miscellanies"
