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And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.

The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee, In secret, in silence, and tears.

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me.

Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head, The least a death to nature.

What wound did ever heal but my degrees?

How he in peace is wounded, not in war.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray,