Quotes
Quotes about Wrong
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong.
If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God--the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures; I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward, Nature's good And God's.
