injury quotes

10 quotes

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

George Eliot

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

George Bernard Shaw

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Joseph Addison

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I’m still sort of an invalid now.

Billy Graham

I break orbital bones.

Conor McGregor

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Plato

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

George Best