Harm Proverbs

Sayings about Harm

One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good. ~ German Proverb

If the panther knew how much he is feared, he would do much more harm. ~ Cameroonian Proverb

Just because he harmed your goat, do not go out and kill his bull. ~ Kenyan Proverb

Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm. ~ Traditional Proverb

It does no harm now and then to burn a candle for the devil. ~ Serbian Proverb

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm unless thou hast sore places. ~Latin Proverb

The friend who helps me and the enemy who does me no harm, make a pair of earrings. ~ Armenian Proverb

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us. ~ Traditional Proverb

If you shoot your arrows at stones, you will damage them. ~ Austrian Proverb

Quotations about Harm

For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them. ~ James E. Sweaney

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. ~ Victor Hugo

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. ~ Hippocrates

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. ~ Lao Tzu

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. ~ Ann Landers

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love. ~ Mariah Burton Nelson

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. ~ Plato

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. ~ Henry Adams

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience -- if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

The power to do good is also the power to do harm. ~ Milton Friedman

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. ~ John Maynard Keynes

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. ~ Socrates

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. ~ Michelangelo

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ~ Hippocrates

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. ~ Emily Dickinson

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ~ John Locke

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. ~ Elizabeth I

Instead of asking -- "How much damage will the work in question bring about?" why not ask -- "How much good? How much joy?" ~ Henry Miller

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ~ Dalai Lama

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. ~ Voltaire

When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody. ~ Bill Cosby

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. ~ George Orwell

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. ~ Thomas Mann

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. ~ Henry George

There is no harm in repeating a good thing. ~ Plato

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. ~ Ludwig von Mises

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. ~ Epicurus

The Reduction of Drug-Related Harm. ~ Book preview