mistakes on Mistaken Identity

A man is being tailgated by a woman who is in a hurry. He comes to an intersection, and when the light turns yellow, he hits the brakes. The woman behind him goes ballistic. She honks her horn at him;...

Years ago, the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) was driving through New Jersey when his car unexpectedly broke down. While a mechanic worked on the repairs, Caruso struck up a conversation wi...

Clouseau: Does your dog bite? Hotel Clerk: No. Clouseau: [bowing down to pet the dog] Nice doggie. [Dog barks and bites Clouseau on the hand] Clouseau: I thought you said your dog did not bite! H...

When I was in college I sometimes visited Bel Air Presbyterian Church, as did many of my friends. At that time Bel Air was known for being a place celebrities liked to visit. (This was not my favorite...

Have you ever mistaken a person for someone else? I remember being at a party with my best friend in high school. We had just arrived when we saw our friend Nicole standing in the corner having a good...

“It is a comfort not to be mistaken at all points."

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

“My mistakes are my life.” How It Is

Computers give rise to many amusing salutations that could also offend. Humorous examples include the legendary Mr. Obe, a fine old West African name that didn’t happen to belong to the recipient (OBE...

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

Mistakes were quite possibly made by the administrations in which I served.

A professional carpet-layer stepped back to admire his customary flawless work. While surveying the installed carpet, he reached into his shirt pocket for a cigarette and realized the pack was missing....

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is pos...

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

In her aptly title book, Being Wrong , Kathleen Schulz describes just how difficult it is to be wrong: A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the ti...

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says, “This is going to take more than one night.”

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

"A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

An American woman visiting the Philippines, observed an elderly woman on the outskirts of Manila. She looked poverty-stricken and walked with the help of a cane down into a ditch alongside a main road...

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

To err isn’t human after all. To err is, cosmically speaking, an anomaly. That’s why we can’t bear the imperfection in ourselves and in others.

We know mistakes were made.

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

There is an old story about a florist who mixed up two orders one busy day. One arrangement went to a new business that was opening, and the other went to a family who had a death. The man with the ne...

Mistakes were made in communicating to the public and customers about the ingredients in our French fries and hash browns.

It is human to err, it is devilish to remain willfully in error.