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Quotes about Wrong


Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.

Thomas Campbell

The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through." I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along: But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong. One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right away, And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do, You get somebody else or wait till I get through."

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.

Unattributed Author

In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise.

Kazi Shams

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Julius Rosenwald

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

Thomas Fuller, M. D.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

Edgar Watson Howe

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

George Soros

Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.

Jacob Ghitis

A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.

Persian Proverb

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Erica Jong

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Walter Savage Landor

What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.

Bavarian Proverb

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Zen Proverb

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Publilius Syrus

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Ayn Rand

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Walter S. Landor

The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.

Kin Hubbard

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two wrongs do not make a right.

English Proverb

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