quotes about Everybody Makes Mistakes

“The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.”

“It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.”

“I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.”

“Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.”

Source : "Satyricon (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures)". Book by Petronius (Chapter XCIV), late 1st century AD.

“I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.”

Source : Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.17, Penguin

“I deal with spiritual truth which should never be sold and need never be bought. When you are ready it will be given.”

“I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.”

“The most stupendous miracle in all music.”

“Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.”

“I never put myself out there as an employment agency,”