Misgive that you may not mistake. [ Whately ]
A good sailor may mistake in a dark night. [ Proverb ]
Where there is much love there is much mistake. [ Proverb ]
Some noble spirits mistake despair for content. [ Willis ]
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. [ Byron ]
By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn. [ Proverb ]
Probably he who never made a mistake never made anything. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance. [ Channing ]
The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry. [ Jouy ]
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. [ Swift ]
We mistake the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our own industry. [ L'Estrange ]
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas it is only the means of obtaining it. [ Rochefoucauld ]
If you would convince a person of his mistake, accost him not when he is ruffled. [ Dr. Watts ]
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. [ Blanco White ]
Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely a scheme of happiness; it is also a bond of service. [ Chapin ]
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm. [ Gertrude ]
Nature meant to make woman her masterpiece, but committed a mistake in the choice of the clay; she took it too fine. [ Lessing ]
I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace. [ Kossuth ]
Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. [ Beaconsfield ]
Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself. [ Shaftesbury ]
With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. [ John Locke ]
Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity. [ George D. Prentice ]
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. Or, as the Chinese better say, The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.
[ Bovee ]
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness. [ Lady Morgan ]
Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]
There is a sort of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in exaggeration; their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. [ Hume ]
Every common dauber writes rascal and villain under his pictures, because the pictures themselves have neither character nor resemblance. But the works of a master require no index. His features and coloring are taken from nature. The impression they make is immediate and uniform; nor is it possible to mistake his characters. [ Junius ]
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be obtained or retained. [ Beaconsfield ]
No woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability you have merely to take them down to supper. The other women are very charming. They commit one mistake, however. They paint in order to try to look young. Our grandmothers painted in order to try to talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit used to go together. That has all gone out now. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]