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Quotes about Wrong


The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Josh Billings

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Denis Waitley

Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

John Dryden

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt: Where amity is ty'd with band of truth, All benefits are there in common set.

Lady Elizabeth Carew (Cary or Carey)

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. •Charlotte Bronte A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. •Bernard Meltzer True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington Friends are born, not made. •Henry Adams Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. •Anonymous Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. •Aristotle A friend loveth at all times. •Bible, Proverbs 17:17 Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. •Charles Caleb Colton A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. •Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them •Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one. •Ralph Waldo Emerson Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. •Euripides It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. •F Scott Fitzgerald We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. •François Duc de La Rochefoucauld God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. •Ethel Watts Mumford Love demands infinitely less than friendship. •George Jean Nathan Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. •Friedrich Nietzsche Hold a true friend with both your hands. •Nigerian Proverb Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. •William Shakespeare The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. •Logan Pearsall Smith A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. •Henry David Thoreau Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. •Bible, John 15:13 The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. •Mark Twain Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. •Voltaire Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. •Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. •Virginia Woolf Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. •Solon Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. •Lavater Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. •C. S. Lewis If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. •Colton Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. •John Seldon There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. •Nabb To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. •Syrus True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. •Charles Caleb Colton We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. •Evelyn Waugh Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. •Lavater Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. •Samuel Butler A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. •Ralph Waldo Emerson, If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. •Blaise Pascal I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. •Plutarch There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. •Francis Bacon Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. •George Macdonald A friend is, as it were, a second self. •Cicero Friendship is Love without his wings! •Byron To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. •Cicero Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. •Shakespeare That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. •Quarles He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. •Joubert Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. •Richter Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. •Nathaniel Hawthorne The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. •Buddha Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. •Seneca The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. •The Hitopadesa Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. •La Fontaine The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. •Moliere One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. •Henry Brook Adams A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. •Lord Samuel While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. •Anonymous Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. •Kehlog Albran The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. •Henry David Thoreau There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. •Buddha The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. •Abraham Lincoln If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. •Samuel Johnson You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. •Star Jones True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. •Theophrastus True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. •Thomas Jefferson True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine

Charlotte Bronte

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.

Robert E. Lee

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.

Lewis J. Bates

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. [Lat., Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore, Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.]

Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Jack Lemmon

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

George Linnaeus Banks

I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

Nicolas Cage

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.

Dr. Albert Ellis

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

Isaac Williams

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

"Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde To me by eny other man; If my floures ouver fade or falle, Then doth my wyfe me wrong wyth alle As many a woman can."

Adam of Cobsham

The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those Who do us none at all. [Lat., Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo, Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur.]

Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. -Sir Philip Sidney.

Sir Philip Sidney

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

George Santayana

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry Adams

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Eugene V. Debs

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Heywood Broun

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

John F. Dodge

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

John F. Dodge

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