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"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"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."
Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
Samuel Butler |
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"An apology is a good way to have the last word." |
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"Apologies only account for that which they do not alter."
Benjamin Disraeli |
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"An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything." Lynn Johnston
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"An apology might help, but you can change your life without one." Robin Quivers
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"An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be." Steve Martin
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"Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. ~Dan Heist
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Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. |
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Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~Kimberly Johnson |
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In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
~Margaret Laurence |
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True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 |
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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 |
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865 |
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Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
~Isaac Friedmann |
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An apology is a good way to have the last word. |
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An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
~Lynn Johnston |
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
~Red Auerbach |
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Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck |
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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~Paul Boese |
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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
~Emily Kimbrough |
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It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
~Grace Hopper |
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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 |
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For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. |
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Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
~Chinese Proverb |
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~William Blake |
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True friends stab you in the front.
~Oscar Wilde |
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The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye |
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You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
~Edgar Watson Howe, CountryTown Sayings, 1911 |
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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A bend in the road is not the end of the road…
unless you fail to make the turn. |
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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ”I’m sorry.”
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Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
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I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He’d better be strong and have a good heart!
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If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. |
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More men are sorry for speaking, than keeping silence.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Vasectomy means not ever having to say you are sorry.
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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
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Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
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You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you’ll find - you’re never sorry you were kind.
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Play fair. Don’t hit people. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
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I’m sorry I can’t speak very coherently.
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Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don’t have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn’t pawn this off on anybody. I’m sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
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Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.
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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
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I am sorry to say that I have those engaged with me in the service who are more savage than the savages themselves.
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
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Very sorry can’t come. Lie follows by post.
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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn’t with me as against me.
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I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
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In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
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What have I got to do to make you love me
What have I got to do to make you care
What do I do when lightning strikes me
And I wake to find that you're not there |
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What do I do to make you want me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word |
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It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word |
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If you are a Crafter or Private Individual you are free to use these verses, poems and wordings, without asking permission... These poems and verses are also free to Card Makers who sell cards on a semi commercial basis (i.e. sales of not more than 50 cards per week) but note copyright law applies to * the body of work in parts and as a whole * individual verses, poems so far as commercial companies are concerned
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It must've been so hard on you
I'm sorry for all I put you through
I'm sorry for the helping hand I didn't lend
I wish I'd been a better friend |
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How do I tell you I'm sorry -
With a gesture, a look, a touch?
How is it I never realized
I hurt you so much |
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I'm sorry I hurt you
I didn't mean to
I'm sorry I hurt you,
I regret it, I do.
What I did, I regret
So lets make up and forget. |
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I love you
Just coz
Please forgive me
I'm soz |
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation." Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"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." Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books." Samuel Butler
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"An apology is a good way to have the last word." Author Unknown
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"Apologies only account for that which they do not alter." Benjamin Disraeli
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"An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything." Lynn Johnston
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"An apology might help, but you can change your life without one." Robin Quivers
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"An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be." Steve Martin
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"Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Apology is only egotism wrong side out." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Friends are God's apology for relations." Hugh Kingsmill "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
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"I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper." Tracey Emin
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"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." Grace Hopper
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"In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry." Margaret Laurence
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"It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize." Stephan Covey
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"It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation." Archibald Alexander
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