A small wound may be mortal. [ Proverb ]
A green wound is soon healed. [ Proverb ]
A bad wound heals; a bad name kills. [ Proverb ]
The world goes whispering to its own,
This anguish pierces to the bone;
And tender friends go sighing round,
What love can ever cure this wound?
My days go on, my days go on. [ E. B. Browning ]
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
How poor are they who have not patience!
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? [ William Shakespeare ]
The secret wound still lives in her heart. [ Virgil ]
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. [ Shakespeare ]
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us,
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. [ Moore ]
And sing to those that hold the vital shears;
And turn the adamantine spindle round,
On which the fate of gods and men is wound. [ Milton ]
The wound is for you, but the pain is for me. [ Charles IX ]
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her work, gave sign of woe
That all was lost. [ Milton ]
The wound that bleeds inwardly is most dangerous. [ Proverb ]
A deadly hatred, and a wound that can never be healed. [ Juv., on the effects of religious contention between neighbours ]
Search not a wound too deep, lest thou make a new one. [ Proverb ]
That chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound. [ Burke ]
A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen. [ Danish Proverb ]
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. [ Seneca ]
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities wound, but they are better. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and it will heal the wound. [ Proverb ]
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. [ Hazlitt ]
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor. [ Saadi ]
What renders the vanity of others unbearable to us is the wound it inflicts on ours. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A wound may, perhaps, through time be closed, but, when fresh, it shrinks from the touch. [ Ovid ]
We wound our modesty, and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. [ William Shakespeare ]
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Sin and hedgehogs are born without spikes; but how they prick and wound after their birth, we all know. [ Richter ]
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber; for though the wound may heal, the sear of it will remain. [ Sadi ]
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb. Time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. [ Southey ]
Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band that indicates a small wound drawn crosswise over the brow. [ Richter ]
A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from the sword; the latter affects only the body - the former, the spirit, the soul. [ Pythagoras ]
If time inflicts on thee many a wound, many a joy brings it too in its course; and one short hour of bliss outweighs a year of pains. [ Geibel ]
A weapon is anything that can serve to wound; and sentiments are perhaps the most cruel weapons man can employ to wound his fellow man. [ Balzac ]
Lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable. [ Addison ]
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! [ Scott ]
Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. [ Cervantes ]
When thou forgivest, - the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closes the wound with a pearl. [ Richter ]
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another; if thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter; if thou receive them, they flee forward and wound the receiver. [ Quarles ]
A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar; the case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor toward the latter part of life. [ Shenstone ]