quotes about Blunders
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
-- A. J. P. TaylorSource : 'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
-- Abraham Cowley -
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
-- Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la MeurtheSource : "Memorias de Fouche" by Joseph Fouché, 1824.
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Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
-- Archibald Alexander -
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There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.
-- Arthur Helps -
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
-- Carolyn Wells -
My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
-- Dawn French -
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.
-- George GamowSource : George Gamow (1970). “My world line; an informal autobiography”, Viking Adult
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
-- J. I. Packer -
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'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
-- John Major -
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
-- Joseph Fouche -
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
-- Josh Billings -
You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.
-- Minnie Maddern FiskeSource : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
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Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
-- Oliver Sacks -
I've spent my life making blunders.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
-- Publilius Syrus -
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.
-- Robert Burns -
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It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.
-- Terry Rossio -
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
-- Thomas Huxley -
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
-- Victor Hugo -
A successful career has been full of blunders.
-- Charles Buxton -
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George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
-- E. C. BentleySource : 'More Biography' (1929) 'George the Third'