hurt quotes

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.22,'Of Cunning'.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw likethe ox. And thesucking child shall playonthehole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the L, as the waters cover the sea.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah11:6^9.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 65:25.

For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart. And death, who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt.

- Gavin Douglas
  'Vergissmeinnicht'.

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

-Euripides
Medea, l.1080 (translated by D Kovacs,1994).

   We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them helpbecause the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.

- Martha Ellis Gellhorn
  On the Vietnamese. The Face of War (rev edn),'The War in Vietnam Vietnam  Again,1986'.

My final word, before I'm done, Is 'Cancer can be rather fun'. Thanks to the nurses and Nye Bevan The NHS is quite like heaven Provided one confronts the tumour With a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt one till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts.

-J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) Haldane
  'Cancer's a Funny Thing'.

The rogue gives you Love Powders, and then a strong horse drench to bring 'em off your stomach that they mayn't hurt you.

- Charles Lamb
  Of Coleridge. Letter to Wordsworth, 23 Sep. Collected in E  W Marrs (ed) Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol.3 (1978).

What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

-Liberace pseudonym of  Wladziu Valentino Liberace
  Responding to a hostile critic.  Autobiography.

They believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the world. We have inherited this belief, and it has helped and hurt us.

- Arthur Miller
  Of the settlers in Salem in1692. The Crucible, act1.

Un soir, j'ai assis la Beaute   sur mes genoux.Et je l'ai trouve  e ame'  re.Et je l'ai injurie  e. One evening, I sat Beauty on my knees.And I found her bitter.And I hurt her.

- (Jean Nicolas) Arthur Rimbaud
  Une saison en enfer,'Jadis, si je me souviens bien'.

   When Jesus came to Birmingham they simply passed Him by, They never hurt a hair of him, they only let Him die. For menhadgrownmoretenderandthey wouldnot give Him pain, Theyonlyjust passeddownthestreet, and left Himinthe rain.

-'Woodbine Willie'
Peace Rhymes of a Padre,'Indifference'.

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.105.