Mistakes are their own instructors. ~Horace

Life would be dull without them. ~Oscar Wilde

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming. ~Oscar Wilde

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
~Marva N. Collins

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ~O. A. Battista

Only he who does nothing makes a mistake. ~French proverb

An error no wider than a hair will lead a hundred miles away from the goal. ~German proverb

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. ~Confucius (551-479 B.C)

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. ~Billy Joel

Time

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~Charles Buxton (1823-1871)

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ~Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)

GATHER YE ROSE-BUDS
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a-getting
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer:
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times, still succeed the former.

Then, be not coy, but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.
~Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

The time will come when Winter will ask us: What were you doing all the Summer? ~Bohemian proverb

Time: that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. ~Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
~Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
~Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

Alas, the years glide swiftly away. ~Horace

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~Buddha