But we mustn't go too far back†in anybody's life† Because if we do†then nobody is to blame for anything, and nothing matters, and everything is allowed.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  London Fields, ch.10.

To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics.

-Anonymous
  In the Washingtonian, Nov.

Como te dec|¤a al principio, nadie hace nada y, naturalmente, soy yo,es elPresidente delaRep u¤ blica elque lo tiene que hacer todo, aunque salga como el cohetero. Con decir que si no fuera por m |¤ no existir|¤a la fortuna, ya que hasta de diosa ciega tengo que hacer en la loter|¤a. But, as I told you, nobody ever does a thing, and so naturally it is I, the President of the Republic, who has to do everything, and take all the blame as well.You might almost say that if it weren't for me Fortune wouldn't exist, as I have even to take the part of the blind goddess in the lottery.

-Asturias, Miguel AŁ   ngel
  El sen‹  or presidente ( The President,1963), pt.3, ch.37.

I loved thee once; I'll love no moreö Thine be the grief as is the blame; Thou art not what thou wast before, What reason I should be the same?

-Aytoun, Sir Robert
'To an Inconstant Mistress', stanza1.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

-Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker
  To My Daughters, With Love,'First Meeting'.

Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.

-Edgeworth, Maria
  Letters for Literary Ladies,'An Essay on the Noble Science of Self- Justification'.

A'sound' banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoidsit, but onewho, whenheisruined, isruined in a conventional and orthodox wayalong with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
Essays in Persuasion.

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw theThing ashesees It for the God of Things as They are!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'When Earth's Last Picture is Painted'.

Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime¤  , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume¤  . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.

-Labe¤  , Louise
  Sonnets, no.24.

   But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

-Lanyer, Aemilia
Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's  Apology in Defense of Women'.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

-Milton,John
Of Samson's heroic death. Samson  Agonistes, l.1721^4.

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads,'An Interlude'.