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| A green wound is soon healed. | 1 |
| A wound foreseen pains the less. Italian. | 2 |
| A wound is not cured by the unbending of the bow. | 3 |
| A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen. Danish. | 4 |
| After the battle humanity should close the wounds that valor has inflicted. Petrarch. | 5 |
| He that would heal a wound must not handle it. Italian. | 6 |
| If you cannot heal the wound do not tear it open. Danish. | 7 |
| Old wounds easily bleed. German. | 8 |
| Reopen not a wound once healed. Latin. | 9 |
| Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one. | 10 |
| Small wounds if many may be mortal. | 11 |
| That wound that was never given is the best cured of any other. | 12 |
| The knife’s wound heals, the tongue’s never. Turkish. | 13 |
| The private wound is deepest. Shakespeare. | 14 |
| The wound that bleedeth inwardly is most dangerous. | 15 |
| The wounds of athletes do not smart. German. | 16 |
| ’Tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. (Mercutio speaking of his wound.) Shakespeare. | 17 |
| Unbending the bow does not heal the wound. French, Italian. | 18 |
| What wound ever healed but by degrees. Shakespeare. | 19 |
| When the wound is healed the pain is forgotten. Danish. | 20 |
| Who fears wounds must not go to war. German. | 21 |
| Wounds from the knife are healed but not those of the tongue. Spanish. | 22 |
| Wounds may heal but not those made by ill words. Spanish. | 23 |
| Wounds pain most when grown cold. Spanish. | 24 |
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