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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