#blunder

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#heart #irish #never #our

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#appraise #blunder #cannot #chiefly #even

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#blunder #committed #dear #debarred #his

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. ↗

— Stand Watie

#bad #blunder #crime #get #great

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. ↗

— Josh Billings

#life #mistakes #success #life

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

— Thomas Huxley

#blunders #commit #epochs #fewest #make

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#blunders #fool #makes #means #nature

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#binds #blunders #friendship #honesty #mushrooms

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#blunders #forward #i #notice #perhaps

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 have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

#blunders #books #dancing #failures #fill