“Mamma does make such delicious blunders.” “Sophie, my dear, that is not a proper way of speaking.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs. — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
“I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history. — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“Comparatively, our private blunders are insignificant. Just part of the general pattern of human awfulness. We map our little disasters onto a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder — Miguel Najdorf Copy Share Image
Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“It’s better to be doubtful and reflect than to be confident and go on making blunders.” — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. — Stand Watie Copy Share Image
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
