Quote: The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either. Author: Jack Benny 1894-1974, American Comedian
Quote: We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. Author: Book Of Common Prayer Liturgy of the Anglican Church
Quote: No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. Author: Anita Brookner 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian
Quote: In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are. Author: Louis Cassels
Quote: I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself. Author: Rodney Dangerfield American Comedian, Actor
Quote: Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. Author: Dorothy Dix 1861-1951, American Columnist
Quote: The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care. Author: Erwin W. Lutzer American Minister
Quote: Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress. Author: Maimonides 1135-1204, Spanish-born Jewish Philosopher
Quote: There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. Author: Joni Mitchell Canadian Folk Singer
Quote: The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- ''My Heart Laid Bare.'' But -- this little book must be true to its title. Author: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer
Quote: Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today. Author: Proverb
Quote: He that jokes confesses. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Confessed faults are half-mended. Author: Scottish Proverb Sayings of Scottish Origin
Quote: Open confession is good for the soul. Author: Scottish Proverb Sayings of Scottish Origin
Quote: Confession, alas, is the new handshake. Author: Richard D. Rosen
Quote: It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: He who denies all, confesses all. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy. Author: Peter De Vries 1910-, American Author
Quote: There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. Author: Daniel Webster 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman
Quote: A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: A confession has to be part of your new life. Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher