Quotes with wound

  • Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
  • Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
  • A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

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  • James Russell Lowell A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Buddha An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Joseph Addison Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • William Shakespeare He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alice Walker Healing begins where the wound was made.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Akhenaton Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Cato the Elder Lighter is the wound foreseen.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Harriet Tubman Never wound a snake; kill it.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Bayard Taylor The hearts that dare are quick to feel; The hands that wound are soft to heal.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Laurence Sterne The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • William Hazlitt The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Washington Irving The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Olive Schreiner The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Emily Brontë Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • William Shakespeare We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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