Sunday, June 1, 2014 – Consolidated Blame
We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame. ~ Bertrand Russell
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. ~ Robert Bloch
The search for someone to blame is always successful. ~ Robert Half
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame? ~ Bob Dylan
I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? ~ Yogi Berra
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. ~ Stanislaw Lev
If you ever have to steal money from your kid, and later on he discovers it’s gone, I think a good thing to do is to blame it on Santa Claus. ~ Jack Handy
Never explain – your friends don’t need it, and your enemies won’t believe you anyhow. ~ Elbert Hubbard
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. ~ Charles Schulz
Blame is for God and small children. ~ Dustin Hoffman
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. ~ Alexander Pope
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. ~ William Walton
A man may fall many times but he won’t be a failure until he says someone pushed him. ~ Elmer G. Letterman
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little “personal characteristics.” ~ Helen Rowland
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….” ~ Sinclair Lewis
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on ~ Oscar Levant
We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones. ~ La Rochefoucauld
We’ve been through so much together, and most of it was your fault. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ~ Rod Stewart
Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it. ~ Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ~ Oscar Wilde
Blame someone else and get on with your life. ~ Alan Woods
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~ Dwight Morrow
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it’s real and you’re not to blame. ~ Umberto Eco
Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos. ~ Doug Coupland
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost. ~ Anna Freud
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was “the man goes on top and the woman underneath.” For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. ~ Joan Rivers
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. ~ Roland Barthes
I’m not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher. ~ Stephen Malkmus
If people don’t like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. ~ Nancy Astor
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. ~ Pearl S. Buck
In short, Luck’s always to blame. ~ Jean De La Fontaine
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ~ Friedrich Schiller
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. ~ Meg Greenfield
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. ~ Anita Brookner
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there’s only one other choice. ~ Doug Larson
There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. ~ Samuel Beckett
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else. ~ Ivern Ball
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. ~ John Henry Newman
A man’s mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. ~ Walter Bagehot
Isn’t it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it’s we who led our parents on to bear us, and it’s our unborn children who make our flesh itch. ~ T. E. Lawrence
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. ~ Anthony Trollope
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault. ~ Sydney J. Harris
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault. ~ Henry A. Kissinger
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. ~ Henri Bergson
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you’ve got it when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault. ~ Robert M. Hutchins
I’m just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. ~ David Letterman
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. ~ Robert Anton Wilson
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. ~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? ~ Herman Melville
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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