“ The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
“ When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
“ In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. ”
- B. H. Liddell Hart- Copy
“ A bore is simply a nonentity who resents his humble lot in life, and seeks satisfaction for his wounded ego by forcing himself on his betters. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
“ Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. ”
- Guy Verhofstadt- Copy
“ A man who doesn't know his or her family is like a lion wounded while trying to make a kill for lunch. ”
- B. Audifferen- Copy
“ A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
“ Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
“ Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. ”
- Erik Erikson- Copy
“ Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light. ”
- Felicia Hermans- Copy
“ A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. ”
- Tyne Daly- Copy
“ I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
“ It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all these little things and are not hurt. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
“ Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise. ”
- Bishop Robert South- Copy
“ O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently — and tolerantly — to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend… ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
“ Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it. ”
- Jean Anouilh- Copy
“ Small debts are like small gun shots; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
“ The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
“ There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
“ Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another. ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
“ Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter. ”
- Howard Dean- Copy
“ Forgiveness has nothing to do with forgetting… A wounded person cannot - indeed, should not - think that a faded memory can provide an expiation of the past. To forgive, one must remember the past, put it into perspective, and move beyond it. Without remembrance, no wound can be transcended. ”
- Beverly Flanigan- Copy
“ But none of us, face-to-face with a wounded human being, often chooses to be cruel. Do I think I've been the emotional pinata at a few parties? Maybe, but they were never parties that I was invited to. ”
- Amy Grant- Copy
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