Gregory Maguire Quotes

Error is always more busy than truth.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

We were almost all wrong

When somethin's not right it's wrong.

Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

Too many times I’ve been wrong, I guess being right takes too long.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

I hope it won't take long.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.