Blunders famous quotes

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Wickedness #Shapes #Blunders

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Women #Blunders

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
-- Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe

#Crime #Blunders

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
-- Archibald Alexander

#Mean #Fool #Blunders

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

#Made #Blunders #Bus

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Grief #Blunders #Indulgence

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
-- Carolyn Wells

#Mistake #Moments #Blunders

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

#Timing #Subtle #Blunders

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Blessed #Forget #Blunders

Success covers a multitude of blunders.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Congratulations #Blunders #Multitudes

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 Gamow

#Problem #Made #Blunders

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
-- J. I. Packer

#Study #Disregard #Blunders

'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

#Government #Doe #Blunders

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
-- Joseph Fouche

#Crime #Plus #Blunders

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
-- Josh Billings

#Men #Blunders #Malice

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.
-- Minnie Maddern Fiske

#Mistake #Accepting #Blunders

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
-- Oliver Sacks

#Design #Evolution #Blunders

I've spent my life making blunders.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Blunders

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Destiny #Blunders #Prudence

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

#Foolish #Embarrassment #Blunders

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

#Blunders #Young #Easier

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
-- Thomas Huxley

#Men #Sin #Blunders

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
-- Victor Hugo

#Rope #Made #Blunders

A successful career has been full of blunders.
-- Charles Buxton

#Successful #Careers #Blunders

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
-- E. C. Bentley

#Wonder #Grotesque #Blunders