Quotes
Quotes about Wrong
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
The impatient may not always be wrong on issues, but they are almost always wrong in their attitudes.
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success.
What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends. [Lat., De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius paeres, Nec habet eventus sordida praeda bonos.]
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
There is no whaler and no whale biologist, no matter how experienced, who is so jaded that his heart does not race at the sight of a blue whale. â¢Dale Rice Nothing excites jaded grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty â¢Dominic Lawson I used to be a hopeless romanticâI fell in love with everyone I went out with. Now I'm a little more . . . jaded â¢Source Unknown People say the word 'naive' as if it were a bad thing. Frankly, I believe that being naive, like a child, is being innocent. Being innocent is happiness. Once innocence is lost there is no turning back, we have now become cynical and jaded adults â¢Source Unknown We'll have to change our jaded ways, but I've loved these days. â¢Billy Joel ...time misspent and faculties mis-employed, and senses jaded by labor, or impaired by excess, cannot be recalled any more than that freshness of the heart, before it has become aware of the deceits of others, and of its own. â¢John Randolph I'm not jaded but I'm not controlled by my emotions. It's not that I'm emotionless, I just have the ability not to be controlled by things like love and hate. â¢Marilyn Manson If I don't make it know that, I've loved you all along. Just like sunny days that, we didn't know because we're all dumb and jaded , and I pray to God I figure out whats wrong.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts--suspects, yet strongly loves!
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is wrong, refer to rule one.
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut communi utilitati serviatur.]
Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
