Blame Quotes - Page 39

• When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Two, Quarrels

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• In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Men, Errors

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

  Alexander Pope

  Agriculture, Toil, Soil

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.244

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• Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Criticism, Candid

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good-natured man. She stoops to conquer; or, the Mistakes of a night. An oratorio. Prefaces. [Criticisms”, p.218

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• A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Men, Novices

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• I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

  Claude Monet

  Weakness, Chance, Good Work

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Christian, Country, Jesus

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• The only time a politico will try to avoid playing the blame game is when they or theirs are to blame.

  Jon Stewart

  Games, Trying, Only Time

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• If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Imagination, World

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Believe, Responsibility, Numbers

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• A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Leader, Risk, Storm

  The Office Economist, Vol. 17-21. p. 145, 1935.

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• Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.

  William Schutz

  Responsibility, Responsible

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• It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

  Brian Jones

  Party, Games, Interesting

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• Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Cameras, Messengers, Court

  "Simpson, families battle over courtroom camera". www.cnn.com. August 23, 1996.

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• Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

  Arsene Wenger

  Player, England, Enough

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• Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Firsts, Management, Problem

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• I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset. Keep in mind, this ain't like the real world where you work somewhere and you can stay 40 years. Being able to see where you are going just a few years ahead is a pretty cool deal, and it doesn't happen too often in any sport, much less stock car racing.

  Ken Schrader

  Sports, Real, Moving

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• I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.

  Jonathan Jakubowicz

  Thinking, Rich, Poor

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• I've only myself to blame. It would be easy for me to blame others but I have to look at myself.

  Craig Bellamy

  Would Be, Looks, Easy

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• I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Sorry, These Days, Parting

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• Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Character, Responsibility, Action

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• Snooki is now a published author. I'm blaming Sarah Palin. She lowered the bar.

  David Letterman

  Bars, Snooki, Palin

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• Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, Law

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• I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Gone

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• All those who slight me to my face,
  Or do me any other evil,
  Even if they blame or slander me,
  May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!

  Shantideva

  Compassion, Evil, Enlightenment

  Shantideva, Padmakara Translation Group (2008). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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