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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Struggle
Age
Youth
Regret
Old
Old Age
Manhood
Blunder
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Alfred Austin
Nature
Class
Gardening
Humility
Constantly
Some
Scholars
Bottom
Without
Sending
Blunder
Even
Oldest
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne
Education
Good
Book
Our
Bit
Table
Part
True
True Education
Talk
Boy
Prank
Hand
Curriculum
Blunder
Anything
Page
Servant
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Stand Watie
Great
World
Crime
Will
Bad
Without
Motive
Get
Any
Intention
Blunder
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli
Life
Grief
Instant
Indulgence
Blunder
Agony
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl Sandburg
Life
Giving
Every
Those
Dangers
Willing
Only
Fail
Cheer
Were
Behind
Blunder
Us
Who
I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.
Charles Saatchi
Best
You
Remember
Made
Half
Stupid
Mistakes
Say
Would
Could
Learn
Fresh
Making
Least
Dwell
Blunder
Them
If I Could
Really
Your
Many
Even
Away
Start
My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
Dawn French
Good
Parenting
Timing
Approach
Everything
Bit
Open
Had
Learn
Covert
Very
Blunder
Subtle
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
Time
Home
Age
Young
Out
Married
Fine
Got
Were
Left
Young Age
Blunder
Happens
Turned
Then
Traveled
Things
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida
Democracy
Opportunities
Mistakes
Past
Correct
Anew
New
Opens
Past Mistakes
Offers
Blunder
Should
Use
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison
Man
Will
Own
Relate
Rather
He
Absurdity
Talking
Dear
His
Debarred
Than
Person
Committed
Blunder
Ostentatious
To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.
Kurt Eichenwald
War
Terrorism
Enemy
Impossible
Degree
Fighting
Defining
Entire
Major
Concept
West
Blunder
Aftermath
Reaping
Strategic
Technique
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore
Experience
Own
Out
Temptation
Seems
Chiefly
Blunder
Cannot
Useful
Even
Appraisal
Appraise
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
Richard Francis Burton
Plunder
Support
However
May
Native
Blunder
Former
Against
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.
Seth Shostak
Technology
Science
Will
Seems
Along
Obvious
Sort
Blunder
Manipulate
Radio
Pair
Eventually
Species
Speech
Operation Bluestar was a mischievous blunder, and it should not have been done.
Subramanian Swamy
Mischievous
Operation
Been
Done
Blunder
Should
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