Erring Quotes

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity.

Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

That power Which erring men call Chance.

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

The moon shone like herrings in the water.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.