Alexander Chase

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."

Oscar Wilde

"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past."

Gerald R. Ford

"For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."

Adlai E. Stevenson

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"

George Bernard Shaw

"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself."

Ausonius

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

John F. Kennedy

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."

William A. Ward

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."

Dag Hammarskjold

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."

Hannah More

"Forgiveness is the final form of love."

Reinhold Niebuhr

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it."

Mark Twain

"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."

George MacDonald

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

Hannah Arendt

"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."

Gerald Jampolsky

"God will forgive me. It's his job."

Heinrich Heine

"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."

Thomas Fuller

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."

Henry Ward Beecher

"I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget."

Chaim Herzog

"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

John Dryden

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

William Blake

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

Jessamyn West

"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited."

Lewis B. Smedes

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."

Olin Miller