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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. (Quote by - David Augsnurger)


Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. (Quote by - Daisy Ashford)


The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)


What is forgiven is usually well remembered. (Quote by - Louis Dudek)


A man must learn to forgive himself. (Quote by - Arthur Davison Ficke)


But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. (Quote by - Lydia M. Child)


The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)


Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. (Quote by - John Erskine)


One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. (Quote by - Rebecca Falls)


It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. (Quote by - Joseph Fouche)


To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. (Quote by - Josh Jenkins)


While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. (Quote by - Henry C. Link)


To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Quote by - Bernadette Devlin)


Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. (Quote by - Daniel C. Gelman)


Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. (Quote by - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)


It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! (Quote by - Douglas Jerold)


I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. (Quote by - Dick Martin)


Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. (Quote by - Mike Binder)


A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. (Quote by - Lisa Moriyama)


I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. (Quote by - Gloria Leonard)


Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one. (Quote by - Jess Mcgovern)


With renunciation life begins. (Quote by - Amelia E. Barr)


Too much agreement kills the chat. (Quote by - Eldridge Cleaver)


The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. (Quote by - Atwell)


You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)


I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion. (Quote by - Ernest Dowson)


Nature does not give to those who will not spend. (Quote by - R.j. Baughan)


All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)


The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less. (Quote by - Piet Hein)


The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)


Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. (Quote by - George Granville)


Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. (Quote by - Critias)


The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. (Quote by - Elder Cloward)


Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. (Quote by - Charlie Finley)


You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)


Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. (Quote by - Frank Moore Colby)


For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?. (Quote by - Bruce Burton)


The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. (Quote by - Arthur Bloch)


Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. (Quote by - John Haggai)


Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. (Quote by - John Bentham)


The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. (Quote by - John Berry)


Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. (Quote by - Les Brown)


He is great enough that is his own master. (Quote by - Joseph Hall)


Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you. (Quote by - Claude M. Bristol)


There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage. (Quote by - Mark Caine)


It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. (Quote by - Charles Dudley)


If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem. (Quote by - Edward Gardner)


No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. (Quote by - Althea Gibson)


I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today. (Quote by - Jessie Hill)


Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. (Quote by - Roy Rogers)


Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. (Quote by - Mary Bateson)


He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. (Quote by - John Bunyan)


Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)


A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. (Quote by - Lisa Kirk)


Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)


One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)


It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. (Quote by - Chuck Daly)


Truth is immortal; error is mortal. (Quote by - Mary Baker Eddy)


The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. (Quote by - Philip Knight)


Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help. (Quote by - Neal A. Maxwell)


Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. (Quote by - Bill Mcglashen)


No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. (Quote by - Sir Max Beerbohm)


One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. (Quote by - Sidney Howard)


In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. (Quote by - Ray Bandy)


Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. (Quote by - Female Philosopher)


I think, therefore I'm single. (Quote by - Rose Franken)


Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. (Quote by - Barbara Howar)


With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. (Quote by - Marlin Finch Lupus)


If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)


Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. (Quote by - St. Augustine)


I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. (Quote by - Edward M. Forster)


They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. (Quote by - Josiah Bailey)


It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. (Quote by - Sally Field)


It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)


Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. (Quote by - Barbara Johnson)


I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. (Quote by - Molly Ivins)


In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. (Quote by - Angela Carter)


Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. (Quote by - Natalie Clifford Barney)


The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. (Quote by - Dorothy Day)


I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory. (Quote by - John Banham)


What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. (Quote by - Bliss Carman)


Never let the other fellow set the agenda. (Quote by - James Baker)


We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. (Quote by - Buckminster Fuller)


An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. (Quote by - Sacha Guitry)


My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. (Quote by - J. Brotherton)


Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)


It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. (Quote by - Richard Braunstein)


There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. (Quote by - William Harvey)


We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. (Quote by - Warren E. Burger)


Listen. Don't explain or justify. (Quote by - William G. Dyer)


The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. (Quote by - Germain G. Glien)


Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)


Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other. (Quote by - John Christian Morgenstern)


Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)


An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death. (Quote by - Hebrew Proverb)


Secrecy is the badge of fraud. (Quote by - Sir John Chadwick)


When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. (Quote by - Caroline Rhea)


To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. (Quote by - Arbie M. Dale)


It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something. (Quote by - Mel Gibson)


Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. (Quote by - Les Brown)


People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. (Quote by - Florence King)


The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love. (Quote by - Richard Edwardes)


Two monologues do not make a dialogue. (Quote by - Jeff Daly)


Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. (Quote by - Chuang Tzu)


It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…. (Quote by - Ralph Charell)


People want riches; they need fulfillment. (Quote by - Robert Conklin)


The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. (Quote by - Ethel Percy Andrus)


Make no judgments where you have no compassion. (Quote by - Anne Mccaffrey)


Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy. (Quote by - Fox)


Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. (Quote by - Louise Beal)


Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. (Quote by - Fredrich Halm)


Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)


Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. (Quote by - St. Augustine)


Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. (Quote by - Paul Boese)


Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. (Quote by - Epictetus)


The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)


The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)


The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else. (Quote by - Preston Bradley)


They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. (Quote by - Elizabeth Ashley)


To be taken seriously you need the ability to make fun of yourself. (Quote by - Bo F. Christensen)


What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day. (Quote by - Julia Roberts)


Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. (Quote by - Marvin J. Ashton)


The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give. (Quote by - Sparky Anderson)


No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. (Quote by - Barbara De Angelis)


If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)


A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)


The soundtrack to Indecent Exposure is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby. (Quote by - Fabio)


For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. (Quote by - Warren Beatty)


We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them. (Quote by - Dr. Alsaker)


The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. (Quote by - Epictetus)


Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. (Quote by - Euripides)


Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. (Quote by - Dandemis)


There is no original truth, only original error. (Quote by - Gaston Bachelard)


If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. (Quote by - Sir Isaac Newton)


To the world you are just one persone, but to one person you could mean the world. (Quote by - Anonymous)


Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it. (Quote by - Mishkat Al-massabaih)


There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. (Quote by - James Truslow Adams)


The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice. (Quote by - Sandra Bullock)


It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now. (Quote by - Allen Ginsberg)


Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. (Quote by - Hedda Hopper)


A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing. (Quote by - Georges Bataille)


In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. (Quote by - Joseph Cannon)


Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they've been hurt before. (Quote by - Anonymous)


Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without. (Quote by - Anonymous)


You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. (Quote by - Anonymous)


He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss.". (Quote by - Anonymous)


They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. (Quote by - Anonymous)


I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. (Quote by - Moliere)


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)


The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? (Quote by - Myrtle Barker)


Patience means self-suffering. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)


Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! (Quote by - Anonymous)


So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)


I love fools experiments. I am always making them. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)


They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. (Quote by - Anonymous)


Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. (Quote by - Brendon Behan)


You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. (Quote by - Creighton Abrams)


This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)


For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. (Quote by - George Ade)


Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. (Quote by - Bible)


In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. (Quote by - Bible)


One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. (Quote by - Bible)


But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. (Quote by - Bible)


Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. (Quote by - Bible)


Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)


If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. (Quote by - Bible)


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. (Quote by - Confucius)