“I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.”
John Owen
“Things being at the worst, begin to mend; The bee when he hath shot his sting into your hand may then play with your eyelid.”
John Webster
“I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure what can't be mended”
Isaac Watts
“He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.”
Benjamin Franklin
“There is no question that more can be done to mend the gap that so often triggers social unrest when economic growth on a national scale leaves the poor and disadvantaged behind.”
Khalid Malik
“What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.”
Swedish Proverb
“It's never too late to mend your ways”
American Proverb