Quotes for All
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a … Read more
It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking. Elizabeth David
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one. Elbert Hubbard
I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country. Eleanor Roosevelt
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another. Edmund Wilson
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke
I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake. Ed Crane
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy. E. M. Forster
It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. Frederick William Robertson
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. Frederick William Robertson