INJURY

Related Subjects: Abuse, Insult, Mischief, Slander, Threat, Violence, Wounds, Wrongs

1. The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.—AESOP, Fables
   

2. It is better to receive than to do an injury.—CICERO
   

3. Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them
   pass by us.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

4. What a fool
   An injury may make of a staid man.—KEATS, Otho the Great
   

5. The noblest remedy of injuries is oblivion.—Proverb
   

6. He that defends an injury is next to him that commits it.—Proverb
   

7. No one is injured except by himself.—Proverb
   

8. It is the mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

9. He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.—SENECA, De Ira
   

10. Whom they have injured they also hate.—SENECA
    

11. To wilful men
    The injuries that they themselves procure
    Must be their schoolmasters.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

12. A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.—SHERIDAN, A Trip to Scarborough
    

13. Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries?—what worthy man does not keep those in mind.—THACKERAY, Lovel the Widower