(113 quotes found)
“It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.”
Josh Billings
“Repentance is another name for aspiration”
Henry Ward Beecher
“ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off --to Missolonghi.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.”
French Proverb
“The best part of repentance is little sinning”
Arabian Proverb
“I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.”
Xenocrates
“Bad men are full of repentance.”
Aristotle
“Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever”
Thomas Secker
“The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense”
Benjamin Franklin
“We as often repent the good we have done as the ill.”
William Hazlitt
