Regret

Famous quotes containing the word regret:

“I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“If one hears truth in the morning, one may die without regret in the evening.”
—Chinese proverb.

Confucian Analects.

“Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn’t something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly—a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)