(257 quotes found)
“A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills”
Spanish Proverb
“Cover that bosom. I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things, and they arouse wicked thoughts.”
Moliere
“All the hours wound you, the last one kills”
Latin Proverb
“It hurts me to see her wounded by these scurrilous reports, and not have anyone to put the record straight.”
Paul McCartney
“Never wound a snake; kill it.”
Harriet Tubman
“As the cortege wound slowly along, the queen whispered in a broken voice, "Here he is," and I knew that her dry eyes were seeing beyond the coffin a little boy in a sailor suit.”
Lady Mabell Airlie
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.”
Rose F. Kennedy
“I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world.”
William Shakespeare
“For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted”
Frantz Fanos
“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever”
Jessamyn West