Mistakes

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks

To err is human

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

To err is human; to forgive, divine

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others

In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.