“My only regret about having four children is that I didn't have four more.”
Martin Sheen (1940) American actor
1990s, Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
“My only regret is to die four pages too soon.”
Final television interview with Melvyn Bragg (5 April 1994)
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Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“And because I love you
I'll give it one more try
To show my rainbow race
It's too soon to die.”
Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer
"My Rainbow Race" (1967)
Context: One blue sky above us
One ocean lapping all our shore
One earth so green and round
Who could ask for more
And because I love you
I'll give it one more try
To show my rainbow race
It's too soon to die.
“I'm Really Serious. Do Not Turn the Page. You Will Regret It.”
Dave Barry book Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
Source: Nonfiction, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs (1997), p. xvii
“We were born as a blank page and we will die as a black page.”
Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet
Si nasce come una pagina bianca e si muore come una pagina nera.
“Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.”
Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
At a King's College college feast, as quoted in 1949, John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946, Fellow and Bursar, (A memoir prepared by direction of the Council of King’s College, Cambridge University, England), Cambridge University Press, 1949, page 37. This in turn quoted in Quote Investigator, " My Only Regret Is That I Have Not Drunk More Champagne In My Life https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/11/more-champagne/", 2013-07-11 <br class="br">Attributed