#wounds

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind. ↗

— Menander

#mind #sharp #sword #words #wounds

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#comedies #histories #invariably #society #tragedies

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#boy #civil #civil war #finland #finnish

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

— John Andrew Holmes

#love #take #war #willing #wounds

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#action #body #cannot #cells #consumers

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

— Horace

#false #fools #healed #shame #try

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#pick #them #time #unless #wounds

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#despise #fatigue #great #habit #pain

But there are some wounds that can never be healed. ↗

— Helen Garner

#never #some #wounds

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#charity #finish #firmness #gives #god