To err is human, but to blame it on someone else is even more human
To err is human. So, what's your excuse! Bazooka Joe
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978)
To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer. --Paul Erlich
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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're
overdoing it.
--Josh Jenkins
To err is human, to forgive, canine.
-- Anonymous
To err is human, to forgive against company policy.
--Unknown
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Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
>To err is human, to forgive is divine. -- Alexander Pope, from An Essay
>on Criticism
To forgive is human, to forget divine.
-- James Grand, c.1980
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bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam
>To forgive is human, to forget divine.
>-- James Grand, c.1980
This explains perceptions of Ronald Reagan's divinity! (couldn't
resist...)
Frank Lynch
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page is at:
http://www.samueljohnson.com/
> Like wow, Scooby, look what Graham J Weeks
> <wee...@REMOVEdircon.co.uk> just wrote!
>
> >To err is human, to forgive is divine. -- Alexander Pope, from An Essay
> >on Criticism
>
> To forgive is human, to forget divine.
> -- James Grand, c.1980
Bless you, you will be blameless yet,
For God forgives, and men forget. -- G. K. Chesterton (to Kipling)
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The rhythm shows that the second "is" doesn't belong there.
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Penn State
ObQuote: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
--- Irving Mills, Duke Ellington (song title)
--Running joke in Sergio Aragonés' "Groo the Wanderer" comics.
(After making some catastrophic blunder with cataclysmic consequences,
Groo always says "Did I err? Yes, I seem to have erred.")
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Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbs...@theworld.com
I forgive you....Does that make me divine?
Just Mary
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Obquote: "I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more." Bob Dylan
>On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 03:46:25 GMT, choll...@mindspring.com (The
>Sanity Inspector) wrote:
>
>>To forgive is human, to forget divine.
>>-- James Grand, c.1980
>
>This explains perceptions of Ronald Reagan's divinity! (couldn't
>resist...)
This may have been interpreted as an unkind comment on Reagan's
Alzheimer's disease... That was certainly not my intent, and if in
interpreting that, you were offended, I apologize. I meant it as a
dig on all the things that happened during Iran-Contra which he seemed
to forget. I think. Let me check my notes...