#pardon

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#action #base #being #dishonorable #doing

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#defend #men #might #nothing #pardonable

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#knew #pardon #would #you

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#committed #folly #least #might #ourselves

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. ↗

— Morley Safer

#marc #pardoning #rich

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. ↗

— Morley Safer

#certain way #country #did #ford #jerry

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#bush #comic #crowd #expression #george

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. ↗

— Charles Edward Merriam

#doing #done #given #imperative #invent

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#hair #long #long hair #offense #should

Why hadn't she just said yes? Then she could have driven alone back to the city [...] and picked up some guy and brought him back home and screwed him and kicked him out and then picked up her daughter at the train the next day like a spy or a con artist, as if the two sides of herself didn't even care to know each other. But it was too late for that. Not just in terms of her ever becoming the kind of woman who knew how to do that kind of thing, without exposing herself as deluded or pathetic or ridiculous. ↗

— Jonathan Dee

#opportunity #passionate-living #women #home