A Quote by Maria Edgeworth

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Maria Edgeworth

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Maria Edgeworth
Irish - Writer
January 1, 1767 - May 22, 1849

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

Jonathan Swift

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Og Mandino

Silence never makes any blunders.

Josh Billings

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

William Butler Yeats

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

Bradley Chicho

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Mark Buchanan

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

Henry Steele Commager

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill

Blunders rarely travel alone.

Anatoly Karpov

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

George Bernard Shaw

I've spent my life making blunders.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.