Quotes About Regret

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

Getting married is a good deal like going to a restaurant with your friends. You order what you want and then when you see what the other fellow got you wish you had taken that.

I've married a few people I shouldn't have but haven't we all?

Not all of his relationships were meant to end . . . Once he sent a postcard and inadvertently wrote "Wish you were her."

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.