The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Whose fault is it we have a blame culture?

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied, he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

In passing, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

I praise loudly, I blame softly.

Let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves ...

They blame him who talks too much; they blame him who is silent; and they also blame him who speaks little; there is not, in fact, a person who is not blamed. Yet there never was, there will never be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed or a man who is always praised.

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.