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 | "A woman will never forgive a man if she is wrong." | |
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Proverb
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| "As we learn to shorten the time between offense and forgiveness,
there becomes no time left for anger or vindictiveness." | |
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Unknown
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| "Be always more ready to forgive, than to return an injury; he that
watches for an opportunity of revenge, lieth in wait against himself, and
draweth down mischief on his own head." | |
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Akhenaton
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| "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." | |
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The Bible
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| "Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself." | |
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Ausonius
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| "Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those that
think they talk sense." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the
future." | |
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Paul Boese
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| "Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent
attitude." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has
crushed it." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." | |
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Hannah Arendt
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| "Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne"er pardon who
have done the wrong." | |
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John Dryden
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| "God saith, "Verily my compassion overcometh my wrath."" | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God
will forgive you but the bureaucracy won"t." | |
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Hyman Rickover
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| "If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God
will forgive you but the bureaucracy won?t." | |
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Hyman George Rickover
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| "If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not
idle." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Life is an adventure in forgiveness." | |
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Norman Cousins
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| "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a
habit." | |
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Peter Ustinov
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| "Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him." | |
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Minna Antrim
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| "Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don"t want the other
person to forget that we forgave." | |
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Ivern Ball
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| "My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who
mind their own business." | |
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Margaret Mitchell
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| "Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for
breakfast." | |
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Marlene Dietrich
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| "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the
strong." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "They who forgive most shall be most forgiven." | |
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Josiah W. Bailey
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| "Those things which the English public never forgives - youth, power
and enthusiasm." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." | |
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William Walton
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| "We know better than we do. We do not yet possess
ourselves...." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we
forgive." | |
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Alan Paton
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| "You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to
admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your
hearing." | |
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Jane Austen
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