Anything you make a mistake about, I will get you out of, and anything you do well I will take the credit for.

-Bevin, Ernest
Attributed, to a subordinate. Quoted in  A  J P  Taylor From the Boer War to the Cold War: Essays on Twentieth-Century Europe (1995).

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

-Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker
  What  America Means To Me, ch.10.

There are so many kinds of awful menö One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.

-Cope,Wendy
  'Rondeau Redouble¤ ' .

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  A Study in Scarlet, ch.3.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

   Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.10.

Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck†as Speaker of the House† Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

-Garner,John Nance
  In the Saturday Evening Post, 2 Nov.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

-James, Henry
  Lambert Strether. The Ambassadors, bk.5, ch.11.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

-Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm
  Die Go«  tzen-Da«  mmerung ( Twilight of the Idols, translated by R  J Hollingdale)

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and18,000 people boo?

-Plante,Jacques
Attributed. Quoted inJohn Robert Colombo (ed) Colombo's All- Time Great Canadian Quotations (1994).

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Remark to Allen Ginsberg,7 Jun. Quoted in H Carpenter A Serious Character (1988), pt.5.

   I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

-Sandburg, Carl
  The People,Yes.

   Cambodiawasnot a mistake; it was a crime.The world is diminished by the experience.

-Shawcross,William
  Sideshow, afterword.

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. 797

-Smiles, Samuel
  Self-Help, ch.11.

  Whenever I think, I make a mistake.

-Stevens, Roger Lacey
  In'How Businessmen Make Decisions', Fortune, Aug.

   I mean, you lieöunder a mistake.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Polite Conversation, dialogue1.

In unexperienc'd Infancy Many a sweet mistake doth lie.

-Traherne,Thomas
'Shadows in theWater' (published1903).

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake, and there shall be no mistake.

-Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Quoted inWilliam Fraser Words onWellington (1889).

Murder is always a mistake† One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.19.