Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.
~ Author Unknown

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~ Kimberly Johnson

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
~ Margaret Laurence

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
~ Isaac Friedmann

An apology is a good way to have the last word.
~ Author Unknown

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
~ Lynn Johnston