A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

— Francis Bacon

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well

— Anonymous

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

— Francis Bacon

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

— John Milton

A man that studied revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

— Strawberry

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

— Francis Bacon

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the…

— Francis Bacon

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized…

— Sean O'Casey

You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?" "If you wanted me to rip my…

— Cassandra Clare

“Time heals nothing. Wounds fester and ooze. Life drags you by a rope over rocks and stones and one day you look up, look…

— Bob Thurber

Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good…

— David Rakoff

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

— Maureen Duffy

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany