Blunders Quotes

147 quotes by 124 authors

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away — William Butler Yeats
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. — George Santayana
I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then… — Fred Couples
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders. — Abraham Cowley
I've spent my life making blunders. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to… — Marcus Garvey
I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and… — George Will
If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit… — Brit Hume
A clever man commits no minor blunders. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now. — Cathy Guisewite
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. — Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. — Benjamin Disraeli
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. — Thomas A. Edison
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. — Stephen Hawking
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. — Robert A. Heinlein
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. — Thomas Huxley
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder,… — Jerome K. Jerome
'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
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders… — Moliere
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a… — Michel de Montaigne

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