quotations about blame
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT HUMPHREY
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attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers
Keep alive the light of justice, and much that men say in blame will pass you by.
EURIPIDES
The Suppliant Women
We never blame the tailor when our pants we have to pin;
We never blame the shoeman when our shoes grow old and thin;
We never blame the hatter when our lids we have to flout,
But we always blame the laundry when our shirts wear out.
LUKE MCLUKE
Cincinnati Enquirer, 1915
Success is never blamed.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
When fools make mistakes, they blame it on Providence.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Blame is responsibility's archenemy.
CHARLES STUART PLATKIN
The Automatic Diet
Sinful heart blames.
TOBA BETA, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life and the Pros
Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad -- don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.
JACK LALANNE
interview, Share Guide
Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame.
STEPHEN KING
The Drawing of the Three
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
HOMER
The Odyssey
We need not hesitate to blame as occasion may require; but it is proper to be cautious how we deal out reproof where the necessity of the case does not fully warrant it.
G. CRABB
attributed, Day's Collacon
As opposed to authentic emotional reactions like sadness, anger, and fear, blame is a defensive stance that's a deep and murky swamp. When you stumble into it, you become mired and lose control over your own health.
RICK FOSTER & GREG HICKS
Choosing Brilliant Health
Blame keeps our happiness contingent on someone else. Blame is the wall between victimization and recovery.
VICTORIA SECUNDA
When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends
There's a man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Waiting for Godot
To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.
ANONYMOUS
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
GLEN DUNCAN
Love Remains
Blame is yet another way to refuse the truth looming large right in front of us.
JEFFREY GARDERE
Love Prescription
Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.
GRAHAM JOYCE
Some Kind of Fairy Tale