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Quotes About Regret

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
~ Ovid
I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
~ Tom Hanks
Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!
~ Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.
~ Amos Oz
I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
~ William Wordsworth
Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
Man always thinks about the past before he dies.
~ Jet Black
But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.
~ Jon Lovitz
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
~ Emile M. Cioran
I knew I shouldn't have given @50cent pitching advice...sorry man
~ Gary Dell'Abate
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.
~ Gene Wolfe
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
~ Lucretius
I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.
~ Maurice Sendak
An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.
~ Max Muller
I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
~ Rafael Nadal
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.
~ Richard Russo
Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.
~ Ian Bannen
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
~ Jules Renard
Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.
~ Khem Veasna
Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.
~ Tracey Forbes
What men say: I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong. What men think: I'd love a Chipwich. I should go get one.
~ Dana Gould