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Quotes About Forgiveness

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business
~ Unknown
A best friend is hard to find, a treasure to keep and a person to trust. They forgive you without knowing and teach you how to be a better friend.
~ Terry Mark
Enemies become friends is hard to seperate, but friends become enemies is hard to bring back.
~ Terry Mark
It's easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~ Unknown
Give one thousand chance to your enemy to become your friend but do not give one chance to your friend to become your enemy.
~ Unknown
New day new blessing. Don't let yesterdays failures ruin the beauty of today, because each day has its own promise of love, joy, forgiveness
~ Unknown
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~ William Blake
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.
~ Eskimo proverb
My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
~ Merle Haggard
For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
~ Stevie Nicks
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
~ Casey Stengel
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
~ Ogden Nash
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
~ Douglas Horton
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
~ Tennessee Williams
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked
~ Bernard Meltzer
Deadbeat dads!! It is time to step up and be a man. Call your children and tell them sorry for being a piece of sh... Then actually stay around and be a positive force in their life.
~ Unknown