Quotes

An apology is a good way to have the last word.
-Anonymous Author

True friends stab you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde

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

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.- Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
-Anonymous Author

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

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

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

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
-Grace Hopper

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
-Anonymous Author

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
-Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
-Stephen Levine

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
-Isaac Friedmann

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
-William Blake

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.
-Anonymous Author

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Anonymous Author