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To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics.

-Anonymous
  In the Washingtonian, Nov.

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools shall not err therein.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 35:8.

For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgement always true: The most may err as grossly as the few. 290

-John Dryden
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.779^82.

Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Man will err while yet he strives.

-JohannWolfgang von Goethe
  Faust, pt.1,'Prolog im Himmel'.

For Kings and Governments may err But never Mr Baedeker.

- SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
  'Mr Baedeker, or Britons  Abroad'.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

- Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism, l.525.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.

- Alexander Pope
  An Essay on Man, epistle 2, l.1^12.

Call it not vain:they do not err Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto 5, stanza1.

I presume you're mortal, and may err.

-James Shirley
  The Lady of Pleasure, act 2, sc.2.