A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.
Samuel Johnson
To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
H.L. Mencken
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much
Joan Collins
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
James Longstreet
The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.
Elbert Hubbard
The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.
George Crook
A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
People who think I made a mistake in picking Hong Kong as a location misunderstand my intentions. I am not here to hide from justice; I am here to reveal criminality
Edward Snowden
In magic, anyone with a shop-bought trick deck is a magician, and if people arent fooled they usually pretend to be, and they are understandably likely to mistake being fooled as a sign of being in the presence of an excellent magician.
Derren Victor Brown
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
There is a subtle difference between being a prisoner and being a slave. I don't mistake either for being free.
Lois McMaster Bujold
He had made one mistake in an otherwise flawless performance: he hadn't told me his name. Have you ever exchanged three words with an American without being told his name?
Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli
What a city, what a night, what a crowd, what a bomb, what a mistake, what a wanker you have for a President.
Paul David Hewson