blunder quotes

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  More Biography,'George the Third'.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An'foolish notion.

- Robert Burns
  'To a Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church', stanza 8.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Coningsby, bk.3, ch.1.