mistake, n.All

The Mistake is part of life, for life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

A Mistake is like a mule, not always distinguishable from a horse in front, but known beyond doubt by acquaintance with its kicking qualities.

The Mistake is important to success, but it is important to never make the same one a second time.

A Mistake is a thing which, if one doesn't make them, one doesn't make anything.

The Mistake is after all, the foundation of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

A Mistake is a thing whereby a life spent making them is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I knew that was a mistakeI recognised it from all the other times I made it

The Mistake may, in the end, turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

A Mistake is more profitable when one commits it off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice.