Silence seldom hurts. [ Proverb ]

The frost hurts not weeds. [ Proverb ]

He hurts the good who spares the bad. [ Syrus ]

He that helps the evil hurts the good. [ Proverb ]

A small matter hurts one that is sore. [ Proverb ]

He hurts me most who lavishly commends. [ Churchill ]

The kick of the dam hurts not the colt. [ Proverb ]

The tree that God plants no wind hurts it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A blow with a reed makes a noise, but hurts not. [ Proverb ]

He that does his own business hurts not his hand. [ Proverb ]

That we would do,
We should do when we would; for this "would" changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
And then this "should" is like a spendthrift's sigh,
That hurts by easing. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

The hypocrite hurts himself; the libertine the whole society. [ Proverb ]

Experience is a keen knife that hurts, while it extracts the cataract that blinds. [ De Finod ]

Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most. [ Massinger ]

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due contemplation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty. [ Boyle ]

Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man's own observation on what he finds does him good, and what hurts him is the best physic to preserve health. [ Bacon ]

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. [ Bishop Hall ]

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 ]