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Wounds Proverbs



Sayings about Wounds

Time heals all wounds. ~ English Proverbs

The pen wounds deeper than an arrow. ~ Yiddish Proverbs

A person with a wound on his head keeps touching it. ~ Egyptian Proverbs

A wound never heals so well that a scar cannot be seen. ~ Danish Proverbs

Do not despise an insignificant enemy, nor a slight wound. ~ German Proverbs

A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn’t. ~ Iranian Proverbs

It is worse to be wounded by words than a sword. ~ Moroccan Proverbs

A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not. ~ Turkish Proverbs

Slander is more deadly than weapons; weapons wound from close range, slander hurts from a distance. ~ Hebrew Proverb

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. ~ Traditional Proverb

If you can give me no ointment for my wound, can you help me by not rubbing salt in? ~ Iranian Proverb

The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords. ~ Arabian Proverbs

No hero without a wound. ~ Bulgarian Proverbs

An arrow can be pulled out of a wound, but a hurtful word stays forever in your heart. ~ Iranian Proverb

Old age and poverty are wounds that can’t be healed. ~ Greek Proverbs

A wounded soul is difficult to heal. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds. ~ Czech Proverbs

A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill. ~ Scottish Proverbs

All the hours wound, the last one kills. ~ Latin Proverbs

Patience is poultice for all wounds. ~ Irish Proverbs

Envy shoots at others and wounds itself. ~ English Proverb

Better a lie that heals than a truth that wounds. ~ Traditional Proverb

Tender surgeons make foul wounds. ~ Dutch Proverbs

A tear in the eye is the wound of the heart. ~ Gypsy Proverb

As the wound inflames the finger, so the thought inflames the mind. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs

A wound heals but the scar remains. ~ Traditional Proverb

A wound inflicted by a friend does not heal. ~ African Proverb

Quotations about Wounds

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What wound did ever heal but my degrees? ~ William Shakespeare

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. ~ Ovid

The wound is for you, but the pain is for me. ~ Charles IX

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. ~ Rose Kennedy

It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. ~ Garrison Keillor

A wounded deer leaps the highest. ~ Emily Dickinson

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing. ~ Kevin Hart

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ~ Bible

Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~ Oprah Winfrey

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. ~ Publilius Syrus

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~ Horace

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. ~ Rebecca West

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. ~ Douglas MacArthur

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted. ~ Andrew Carnegie

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. ~ Marianne Williamson

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. ~ Francis Bacon

I believe time wounds all heels. ~ John Lennon

Time wounds all heels. ~ Jane Sherwood Ace

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting. ~ Mao Zedong

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ~ Khalil Gibran

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars. ~ Roy Orbison

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth. ~ Jane Fonda

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~ Novalis

I think scars are like battle wounds – beautiful, in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it. ~ Demi Lovato

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. ~ Joseph Addison

There’s a lot of bitterness, there’s a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds. ~ Allen Boyd

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations. ~ James Blunt

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ~ John Holmes

But there are some wounds that can never be healed. ~ Helen Garner

Scars show toughness: that you’ve been through it, and you’re still standing. ~ Theo Rossi

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough. ~ Aisha Tyler

There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. ~ Sean Brady

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

He jests at scars that never felt a wound. ~ William Shakespeare

Turn your scars into stars. ~ Robert H. Schuller

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