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Wrongs Proverbs



Sayings about Wrongs & Wrong Doing

Two wrongs don’t make a right. ~ English Proverbs

There are a thousand roads to every wrong. ~ Polish Proverbs

Better ask twice than go wrong once. ~ German Proverbs

The wrongdoer forgets, but not the wronged. ~ African Proverb

If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong. ~ South African Proverb

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

Losers are always in the wrong. ~ Spanish Proverbs

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum. ~ Chinese Proverb

What is the use of running when you’re on the wrong road? ~ German Proverb

To follow everyone is wrong; to follow no one is worse. ~ Croatian Proverbs

If you are doing wrong, make sure you don’t get fat from it. ~ Cambodian Proverb

He must indeed be a good master who never does wrong. ~ Dutch Proverbs

He is always right who suspects that he is always wrong. ~ Spanish Proverb

When two quarrel both are in the wrong. ~ Dutch Proverb

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself. ~ Native American Proverb

Let a wrong-doing repeat itself at least three times: the first may be an accident, the second a mistake, but the third is likely to be intentional. ~ African Proverb

The multitude is always wrong. ~ Traditional Proverb

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong. ~ Traditional Proverb

God and fairies can be wrong as well. ~ Chinese Proverb

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. ~ Turkish Proverbs

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today. ~ Traditional Proverb

When everybody is wrong then everybody is right. ~ French Proverbs

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~ Zen Proverb

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong. ~ Traditional Proverb

By getting angry, you show you are wrong. ~ Malagasy Proverbs

People should not talk while they are eating or pepper may go down the wrong way. ~ African Proverb

The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief. ~ South African Proverb

Since I wronged you, I have never liked you. ~ Spanish Proverb

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. ~ German Proverb

What is wrong today won’t be right tomorrow. ~ Dutch Proverb

To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions. ~ Hebrew Proverb

Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. ~ Yiddish Proverbs

Those who are absent are always wrong. ~ French Proverb

A clock that stands still is better than one that goes wrong. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side. ~ French Proverbs

It is better to run back than run the wrong way. ~ Traditional Proverb

If your inner mind isn’t deceived, your outer actions won’t be wrong. ~ Tibetan Proverb

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. ~ American Proverbs

If there were no wrongdoing, there would be no forgiveness. ~ Egyptian Proverb

He who has approved of wrongdoing is as guilty as he who has committed it. ~ Arabian Proverb

Something done at the wrong time should be regarded as not done. ~ Indian Proverbs

Quotations about Wrongs

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain? ~ Buddha

When women go wrong, men go right after them. ~ Mae West

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too. ~ Author Unknown

If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there’s something wrong with the universe. ~ Dr. Beverly Crusher

Never do wrong when people are looking. ~ Mark Twain

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. ~ Arnold Bennett

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different. ~ Lord Samuel

I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper. ~ Shakespeare

When things go wrong, don’t go with them. ~ Author Unknown

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. ~ Sophocles

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. ~ Author Unknown

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrong-doing. ~ Marcus Tullius

When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong. ~ Jean Craighead George

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. ~ Author Unknown

Thus to persist In doing wrong extenuates not wrong, But makes it much more heavy. ~ Shakespeare

I’d rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. ~ Tallulah Bankhead

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get ’em, get ’em right, or they will get you wrong. ~ Thomas Fuller

We are innocent of wrong-doing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious. ~ David Mamet

There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out. ~ Mae West

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. ~ Henrik Ibsen

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. ~ Epictetus

When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong — or you are absolutely right. ~ Albert Guinon

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right; immediately. ~ Sam Slick

Right or wrong, the customer is always right. ~ Marshall Field

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. ~ Aldus Huxley

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. ~ Thomas Carlyle

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong. ~ Suzanne Vega

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. ~ Author Unknown

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong. ~ Morris K. Udall

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing. ~ Peace Pilgrim

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong. ~ Traditional Proverb

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. ~ Mary Hemingway

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private, is taken as presumptive evidence of wrong-doing. ~ Charles Krauthammer

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side. ~ Oscar Levant

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. ~ Malcolm X

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can’t speak English. ~ Dan Castellaneta

Anything that comes easy comes wrong. ~ Josephine Tessier

There is always a time to make right what is wrong. ~ Susan Griffin

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