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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Wrongs |
| In the great right of an excessive wrong. Robert Browning—The Ring and the Book. The other Half—Rome. L. 1,055. | 1 |
| Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. Gay—Beggar’s Opera. Act II. Sc. 2. | 2 |
| Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again. George Macdonald—Phantastes. A Fairy Story. | 3 |
| A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. Stevenson—Crabbed Age. | 4 |
| Once I guessed right, And I got credit by’t; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. Saying quoted by Swift. (1710). | 5 |
| Injuriarum remedium est oblivio. The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. Syrus—Maxims. | 6 |
| Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth. Bayard Taylor—Improvisations. Pt. V. | 7 |
| Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. Wordsworth—The Excursion. Bk. III. L. 377. | 8 |
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