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"
Quotations
Mistake
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.
-Meg Whitman
