Mistake Quotations | Page 7

We're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace. We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.