Sometimes words
Hurt more than swords. [ Proverb ]
A broken glass cannot be hurt. [ Proverb ]
Soft words hurt not the mouth. [ Proverb ]
Men hate those they have hurt. [ Proverb ]
He cries out before he is hurt. [ Italian Proverb ]
To hurt is easy, to heal is hard. [ German Proverb ]
More things affright than hurt us. [ Proverb ]
No man is ever hurt but by himself. [ Diogenes ]
A man is not so soon healed as hurt. [ Proverb ]
A small hurt in the eye is a great one. [ Proverb ]
They hurt themselves that wrong others. [ Proverb ]
The least and weakest man can do some hurt. [ Proverb ]
Sit firm in your place and none can hurt you. [ Proverb ]
The fire that all things else consumeth clean
May hurt and heal. [ Sir Thomas Wyatt ]
It is time enough to cry Oh! when you are hurt. [ Proverb ]
If you are wise, and prize your peace of mind,
Believe me true, nor listen to your Jealousy,
Let not that devil which undoes your sex,
That cursed curiosity seduce you
To hunt for needless secrets, which, neglected,
Shall never hurt your quiet, but once known
Shall sit upon your heart, pinch it with pain,
And banish sweet sleep forever from you. [ Rowe ]
Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections. [ Lew Wallace ]
Slanderers do not hurt me, because they do not hit me. [ Socrates ]
The envious hurt others something, but himself very much. [ Proverb ]
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. [ Lord Clarendon ]
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. [ Ovid ]
If we have but the right mind, all things, even those which hurt, help us. [ Spalding ]
Take a stick to a Highland laddie, and it's no him you hurt, but his ancestors. [ J. M. Barrie ]
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. [ William Shakespeare ]
Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all, and are not even hurt. [ La Roche ]
Neglected, calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. [ Tacitus ]
If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am [ William Shakespeare ]
Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. [ Zimmermann ]
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. [ Tillotson ]
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. [ Maria Edgeworth ]
One futile person, that maketh it his glory to tell, will do more hurt than many that know it their duty to conceal. [ Bacon ]
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions. [ William Penn ]
There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skillful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs. [ Plutarch ]
As for drinking, I have no rule about that. When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry, by habit and preference. This dryness does not hurt me, but it could easily hurt you, because you are different. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
When you take the wires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down? - that it does not release me, and put me into some better place, and better condition of life? [ Bishop Randolph S. Foster ]
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing!
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]
By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages. [ Hazlitt ]
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment. [ Chalmers ]