BLAME QUOTES II

quotations about blame

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

HUBERT HUMPHREY

attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers


Blame is responsibility's archenemy.

CHARLES STUART PLATKIN

The Automatic Diet


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


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


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


To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.

ANONYMOUS


When fools make mistakes, they blame it on Providence.

AMERICAN PROVERB


The blame game was a favorite pastime in my addicted family. Mistakes were immediately followed by emotional exchanges over who was at fault. I often was blamed, and I learned to blame others just as readily. In my adult life, the blame game has become an obsession. Sometimes I blame others and then am consumed with anger and bitterness. Or I take the blame and am swept up in a cycle of guilt and shame. Both responses divert energy from solving the problem and getting on with life.

ROKELLE LERNER

Affirmations for the Inner Child


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


As opposed to authentic emotional reactions like sadness, anger, and fear, blame is a defensive stance that's a deep and murky swamp. When you stumble into it, you become mired and lose control over your own health.

RICK FOSTER & GREG HICKS

Choosing Brilliant Health


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"


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"


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


The absent always bear the blame.

DUTCH PROVERB


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


Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame.

STEPHEN KING

The Drawing of the Three


There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

OSCAR WILDE

The Picture of Dorian Gray


Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

DOUGLAS COUPLAND

All Families are Psychotic