A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
William Penn
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
Alan Paton
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
Pierre Corneille
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Antrim
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.
James Payn
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Alden Nowlan
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine II
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
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