Essays ‘Of Cunning'
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Beaumont Francis 1584-1616
The Maid's Tragedy
Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: Revelation ch.7 v.3
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.
Blake William 1757-1827
‘Auguries of Innocence'
He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be beloved by men
He who the ox to wrath has moved
Shall never be by woman loved.
Fitzwater Marlin
(on inexperience at the White House)
A few more fat, old bald men wouldn't hurt the place.
Hamilton Eleanor
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.
Holmes Oliver Wendell 1809-1894
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt
itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Rewards and Fairies ‘If-'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Madonna 1959-
The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.
Merton Thomas 1915-1968
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Paige Satchel 1906-1982
(Airplanes) may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Merchant of Venice
Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle
us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
If are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Atuddert Kennedy G.A. 1883-1929
Peace Rhymes of a padre ‘Indifference'
When Jesus came to Birmingham they simply passed Him by,
They never hurt a hair of Him, they only let Him die.
Tacitus AD c.56-c.117
Agricola
It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘Locksley Hall'
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
Following the Equator
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Newman Andrea
Toothache doesn't stop hurting because someone else has cancer.
Namath Joe 1943-
When you win, nothing hurts.
Teresa Mother 1910-1997
I have found the paradox that if love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.