quotes about mistakes in life

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting. ~Lemony Snicket


The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. ~Irving Babbitt


If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin


I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is? ~Paul Merton


A drunken man is fitly named: he has drank, till he is drunken: the wine swallows his consciousness, and it sinks therein. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


I skip for that all-over body tickle. ~John Olesen


Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. ~Author Unknown


Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf


You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ~Tom Brokaw


History knows that it can wait for more evidence and review its older verdicts; it offers an endless series of courts of appeal, and is ever ready to reopen closed cases. ~William Stubbs


It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854


Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. ~Soren Kierkegaard


Life is one long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks


For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again... ~II Samuel 14:14


Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. ~Kin Hubbard


I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified. ~Anita Weiss


Quote A: �The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.� ~Jon Stewart Quote A: �Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.� ~C.A. Johnson


When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. ~Philip Adams


I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. ~Dorothy Day


I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com