For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. . . . Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn't say 80 percent. I said 92 percent-93 percent, pardon me. And I didn't say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. . . . If we are totally successful and can eliminate all the manmade oxides of nitrogen, we'll still have 93 percent as much as we have in the air today.
If I am awarded a pardon for my philanthropic work, great; if not, I will continue to be involved in the community and to work just as hard, if not harder, to prevent kids from going down the same road and making the same mistakes.
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
Pardon me while I lower my voice.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
The offender never pardons.
These evils I deserve, and more. . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.
If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners.
He who pardons easily invites offense.
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
There are faults we would fain pardon.
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.
Pardon others often, thyself never.
Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.
