#blunder

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#cuts #down #eager #every #fruit

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#catalogue #mainly #war

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time. ↗

— Fred Couples

#blunder #fine #got #happens #home

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. ↗

— Stand Watie

#bad #blunder #crime #get #great

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#blunder #cleverness #moment #right #right moment

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#god #man

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. ↗