I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George Carlin

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle