Quotes
Quotes about Injury
It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]
A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. [Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit.]
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily . . .
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi, Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."
