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
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
Keep alive the light of justice, and much that men say in blame will pass you by.
EURIPIDES
The Suppliant Women
Blame is responsibility's archenemy.
CHARLES STUART PLATKIN
The Automatic Diet
When fools make mistakes, they blame it on Providence.
AMERICAN PROVERB
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
Success is never blamed.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
I blame the vain for what we wear
And I blame the blind when we can't see
I blame it all on somebody else
'Til there's nobody left, then I just blame me
DWIGHT YOAKAM
"Blame the Vain"
Blame is yet another way to refuse the truth looming large right in front of us.
JEFFREY GARDERE
Love Prescription
Blame rings in the ears like the crack of a bell long after it has been silenced.
DON H. POLSTON
There Can Be a New You
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
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
LEO TOLSTOY
War and Peace
Sinful heart blames.
TOBA BETA, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
There's a man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Waiting for Godot
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
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
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
You could blame it on yourself
Blame it on me but don't blame it on love
HALL & OATES
"Don't Blame It on Love"
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
HOMER
The Odyssey