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Silence never makes any blunders.
The indulgence in grief is a blunder.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.
A successful career has been full of blunders.
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
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.
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.
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
For the anti-anti-Trump pundit, whatever the allegation against Mr. Trump, whatever his blunders or foibles, the other side is always worse.
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.
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.
In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?
It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
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.
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.
Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.
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.
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.
Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.