Best Harm Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.”

Ends Science Perfect Taken Tools Instruments Harm Invaluable Superb

Author:Carl Jung

“Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.”

Persons Animal Plant Harm Minerals

Author:Nhat Hanh

“When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!”

Ifs Men Young Doors Bird Leaving Harm Young Man Helpful Cages Undone

Author:Winston Churchill

“Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.”

Has Beens Opinion Taken Harm Complaints

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.”

Has Beens Taken Harm Complaining Complaints

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.”

Masters Harm Cried Hail Treachery Judas

Book:The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

“At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.”

Years Looks Doe Character Age Action Past Plans Harm Our Past Shortcomings Miscellaneous

Book:Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

“Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.”

Warm Harm Dry Harvest August

Author:Thomas Tusser

“The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.”

Doe Morality Ethics Killing Harm Injury Fleas Flea Markets Morality And Ethics

Book:John Donne: The Major Works

Source: John Donne: The Major Works

“What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?”

Thinking Heart Tongue Harm Idleness

Author:John Heywood

“There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.”

Ifs Men Body Strong Wine Harm Offense Stout

Author:Plutarch

“To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.”

Ifs Art Values Quality Mystery Painting Harm Feats Irreparable Irreparable Harm

Author:Georges Braque

“False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.”

Men Literature Wealth Poor Poverty Shame Profit Harm Accompany

Author:Hesiod

“There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.”

Reason Done Whole Opinion Development Speech Fairs Harm Oppression Discussion Heresy Thorough Heretic Free Thought

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.”

Social Company Environment Waste Program Dollars Spending Harm Welfare Wealthy Taxpayers Reduction Mockery

Author:Ralph Nader

“There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.”

Eye Black Half Harm Charm Wondrous Meek Black Eyes

Book:Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love

Source: Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love

“Just think you are the greatest. Where's the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.”

Thinking Pride Harm

Book:The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

“But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.”

Littles Done Harm Milk Acceptable Cheese Obtaining

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.”

Ifs Authority Refuse Harm

Author:Anthony de Mello

“If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Able Individual Can Do Imagine Risk Weapons Harm Nuclear Enormous Isolated Nuclear Weapons Lunatic Civil Society

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.”

Made Cost Errors Harm Settling

Author:H. Lee Scott, Jr.

“Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.”

Giving Has Beens Building Protect Giving Up Definitions Surface Harm Insecurity

Author:David Whyte

“I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.”

Father Students Fingers Harm Bass

Author:Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

“The harm done is often difficult to repair.”

Done Difficult Harm

Author:Cat Stevens

“Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.”

States Might Lasts Ultimate Harm Enterprise Cricket Last Words Private Enterprise

Author:Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

“If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.”

Ifs Ends Facts Becoming Harm Frightening

Author:Paula Rego

“Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.”

Ifs Men Pain Life Is Suffering Evil Offers Harm Suffering And Pain

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.”

Persons Feelings Motivational Night Eating Harm Resentment Every Night Grudge Let Down

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.”

“Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.”

People Men Humans Doe Made Running Politics Lost Talking Doubt Speech Vote Harm Bryan

Author:Will Rogers

“When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.”

Ifs Way Helping Use Motivational Fighting Fate Obstacles Harm Handle Blades Daggers

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.”

Doe Nice Fellows Faults Come Up Harm Manage Mickey Grinning

Author:Walt Disney

“Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.”

Eternal Environmental Harm Wilderness World Environment Eternal Youth

Book:STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.”

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.”

Black Teacher Degrees Harm Experts Enlightened Fifth Belts Beginners Black Belt

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.”

Ifs May Shows Seeing Love You Harm Perceive Mask Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.”

Thinking Doe Facts Seems Fighting Winning Sports Athlete Ugly Harm Bother Opponents Damage

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.”