A Quote by Cesare Pavese

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

Cesare Pavese

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Commit Fail Right Two Wrong Wrongs

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Cesare Pavese
Italian - Novelist
September 9, 1908 - August 27, 1950

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

Andrew Clements

If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?

Buzz Osborne

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

Dennis Miller

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

Hugh Laurie

It's OK to be wrong. You learn from your wrongs. You don't learn from being right. If you're right, you already know it. If you're wrong, it's because you don't know about it, and you made a mistake.

Martin Landau

Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.

Matthew Scully

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Roald Dahl

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

Kevin Rudd

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Laurence J. Peter

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Norman Cousins

There have been candidates who've been right on trade but wrong on the other two, right on war but wrong on the other two, right on immigration but not interested in the other two. It is this writer's belief that [Donald] Trump is the first one to come along, despite what a big buffoon everybody says he is. He is the only guy that's put his finger on the problems and the comprises and the areas that need to be addressed in order to owe direct the route which our country is traveling.