"As Eighty," from Bee Time Vine (1953, Yale University Press); written in 1923
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 233
“It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.”
A Man Without a Country (2005)
“A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable, and never acceptable.”
Guitar Craft Monograph III: Aphorisms, Oct. 27 1988
“Our enemies have always made the same mistake.”
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)
Context: Our enemies have always made the same mistake. In my lifetime—in depression and in war—they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again. For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say "Farewell." Is a new world coming? We welcome it—and we will bend it to the hopes of man.
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
“Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.”
Source: Listen, Little Man!
“It’s good to remember that in science, mistakes always precede discoveries. Be teachable.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.”
Hall, Eliza Calvert (1910). "Introduction". Sally Ann's Experience. Illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson, Theodore Brown Hapgood. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. pp. v - xii. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ugAZAAAAYAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA50&dq=aunt+jane+of+kentucky&ots=Oaz4lMOoks&sig=_ET0k7b6BWOlRwCqW5Qja3baNvg#v=onepage&q=Introduction&f=false.
Lida Obenchain's description of her then famous story Sally Ann's Experience.
