Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
~ Harriet Nelson

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
~ George Herbert

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
~ Sydney Harris

Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet.
~ Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Abe Martin's Broadcast, 1930

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~ Josh Billings

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
~ Roberto Assagioli