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Quotes about Wrong


Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Miscellaneous

They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.

Miscellaneous

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

Hesiod

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.

Marcus Aurelius

You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Blaise Pascal

I believe the wrong God is temporarily ruling the world and that the true God has gone under

A character in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags said that the difference between prewar and postwar life was that, prewar, if one thing went wrong the day was ruined; postwar, if one thing went right the day would be made. America is a prewar country, psychologically unprepared for one thing to go wrong.

Can you not forsee what you will feel when you are truly grown up? You will understand the disappointments then. You will see where metaphors go wrong, that the door is most tight shut when it seems most open, that we are condemned to dying more than to death. Let me tell you the manner of our dying away from each other, which is not yet death

The foul wrong then lay beyond a man's own purposing; there was somewhere, outside time's very beginning, an infinite well of putridity from which body and mind alike were driven, by some force unseen and uncontrollable, to drink

It seemed to me that good and evil were probably as indefinable as right and wrong, and that the one reality was the electricity of opposition

There's nothing wrong with dying spectacularly. Christ did it.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong.

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

Wolfgang Pauli

I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong.

There is an easy answer to your problem that is neat, plausible, and wrong.

When things go wrong - don't go wrong with them.

If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Dandemis

If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is an easy answer to your problem that is neat, plausible, and wrong.

A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

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