The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. (Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927)

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. (John Peel)

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Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas. (Alfonso de Cartagena)

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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. (Mel Brooks)

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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own. (Jessamyn West)

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I want to suggest to you today, that unless we have a tolerant attitude toward mistakes - I might almost say "a positive attitude toward them" - we shall be behaving irrationally, unscientifically, and unsuccessfully. Now, of course, if you now say to me, "Look here, you weird Limey, are you seriously advocating relaunching the Edsel?" I will reply, "No." There are mistakes - and mistakes. There are true, copper-bottom mistakes like spelling the word "rabbit" with three Ms; wearing a black bra under a white shirt; or, to take a more masculine example, starting a land war in Asia. These are the kind of mistakes described by Mr. David Letterman as Brushes With Stupidity, because they have no reasonable chance of success. (John Cleese)

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