Mistake

Famous quotes containing the word mistake:

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “Science Fiction” ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)

“Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that’s all.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
—Samuel Smiles (1812–1904)