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.
William Blake

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
John Dryden

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper

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

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
Alexander Chase

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
Alexander Chase

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi