Popular Quotes

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

- G. K. Chesterton

All sins cast long shadows.

- Irish proverb

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

- Ernest Hemingway

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

- Old saying

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

- J. A. Froude

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

- Georges Bidault

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

- Freeman Teague

Too much talk will include errors.

- Burmese proverb

What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

- Old saying

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct, is quite a man.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

- Anonymous

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

- Oliver Cromwell

Men are men, they needs must err.

- Euripides

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

- Goethe

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

- Lord Acton

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

- Josh Billings

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

- Jessamyn West

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

- Anonymous

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

- Charles Dickens

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

- Norman Douglas

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

- Robert Frost