Apologies Quotes: Friends, Love, Fights, Apologies, No Apologies, I’m sorry, Forgivness Quotes

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. 

Edgar Watson Howe

 

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. 

Red Auerbach

 

In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry. 

Margaret Laurence

 

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately.  It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.

Dan Heist

 

 

There's one sad truth in life I've found

While journeying east and west -

The only folks we really wound

Are those we love the best.

We flatter those we scarcely know,

We please the fleeting guest,

And deal full many a thoughtless blow

To those who love us best.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

 

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Attributed to Baroness Orczy

 

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

Isaac Friedmann

 

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. 

Paul Boese

 

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. 

Chinese Proverb

 

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. 

William Blake

 

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Lois Wyse

 

True friends stab you in the front. 

Oscar Wilde

 

A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. 

G.K. Chesterton

 

Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness.

John Wayne

 

An apology is the superglue of life.  It can repair just about anything. 

Lynn Johnston

 

 

It is a good rule in life never to apologize.  The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. 

P.G. Wodehouse

  

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

King Charles I

Ovid Quotes

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.


First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.


Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.


Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor. I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

To be loved, be lovable.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

It is not any particular type of beauty that sets my heart on fire. A hundred motives compel me to be always in love. Here is a girl that drops her gaze demurely. That is enough, my heart catches fire and her modesty is the lure that ensnares me. And here is one that is out for booty. To her I fall a willing victim because she is no novice and because she bids fair to be keen and enterprising on a downy couch. And then, if I see one with an expression that recalls to me the Sabine dames, I forthwith tell myself that she has longings but knows how to conceal them. Are you a learned lady? I fall in love with your rare accomplishments. Unlearned? Your naïveté enthralls me. ...

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

Medio tutissimus ibis. You will be safest in the middle.

I have not the strength nor the will-power to govern my passions; they bear me along with them, even as the swift tide hurries away the slender bark.


The gods have their own rules.

The result justifies the deed.

Time the devourer of all things.

Old Friends

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
William Somerset Maugham

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friendship Quotes

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb

No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks ofadversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad.

Never Explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln


Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.