'I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.'

-Ballads
'Sir Patrick Spens'.

En perseguirme, Mundo, Que¤   interesas? En que¤   te ofendo, cuando so¤  lo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas? World, in hounding me, what do you gain? How can it harm you if I choose, astutely, rather to stock my mind with things of beauty, than waste its stock on every beauty's claim?

-Cruz, SorJuana Ine¤  s de la
  Poes|¤  a, teatro y prosa,'Que¤  jase de la suerte' (translated as 'She Complains about Her Fate',1985).

It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks.

-Gilmour of Craiglockhart, Ian Gilmour, Baron
In The Times, after he was sacked by Margaret Thatcher for publicly criticizing her anti-European stance.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man,

-Hesiod   c.8c

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  BB.The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

Serenely full, the epicure would say, 'Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.'

-Smith, Rev Sydney
'Receipt for a Salad', concluding lines, quoted in Lady Holland Memoir, (1855), vol.1, ch.11.

I don't think it does any harm to the artist to be lonely as an artist.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Letter to Pennar Davies.

It will do us no harm to retool our imaginations. AIDS is a major revolution in how writers write† Our heroes and heroines will have to change. The only thing AIDS is good for is fiction.Writers will have to thinkdifferently.

-Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw
  In The Guardian,7 Mar.