Quotes of Mistaken - somelinesforyou

“ "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ”

- Stephen Decatur

“ I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't. ”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

“ Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire. ”

- Murray Walker

“ Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. ”

- Carl Schurz

“ Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ To the wrongs that need resistance,To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. ”

- Carrie Chapman Catt

“ Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. ”

- Ella Fitzgerald

“ Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ When women go wrong, men go right after them. ”

- Mae West

“ Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. ”

- Bernard Gilpin

“ Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ”

- George Soros

“ There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ Everything in this book may be wrong. ”

- Richard Bach

“ We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something! ”

- Newt Gingrich

“ She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong. ”

- Mae West

“ The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me. ”

- Democritus

“ I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. ”

- Henry Adams

“ I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. ”

- Oliver Cromwell

“ Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. ”

- Adolf Hitler
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