Zitat des Tages über Patzer / Blunders:
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.
Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, rose out of the the chaos, throwing the region into turmoil that hasn't been equaled since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.