Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
—Laurence J. Peter
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
—Alan Woods
If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
—Marcelene Cox
All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.
—Elinor Goulding Smith
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
—Oscar Levant
They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
—Ann Richards
It is up to us; there is no one left to blame. Neither the system, nor our leaders, nor our parents. We can't go out and hang the first amoeba.
—Rebecca McClen Novick
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
—Lichty and Wagner
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
—Albert Ellis
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
—W. Somerset Maugham
Neither blame or praise yourself.
—Plutarch
It doesn't matter what happens as long as the right person gets the blame.
—Walter Kirn