Publilius Syrus Quotes

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

I don't know why I did it.

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

Avoid what will require an apology.

I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and the American people.

Sometimes I wish I had never pardoned that son of a bitch!

Apology is often the first step in correcting a wrong. Having moved for a position of saying 'I don't need forgiveness,' Mr. Trump is now taking a second look at past behaviors, things that he's said and done that he regrets. While he is not asking for forgiveness for being human, he is admitting that he's made mistakes and humbly making apologies.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

My role in Palin is something that there's not a day that has gone by that I don't have regret about.