You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.
I get a lot of credit I don't deserve.