Ill Quotes · Page 19

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

— Anonymous

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

— Edmund Spenser

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

— Dorothea Dix

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

— Anonymous

The sight of a certain depressed-to-the-max head of seaweed has made me quite ill.

— Jun Mochizuki

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

— Samuel Johnson

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

— Ambrose Bierce

I think Ill take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

— Just Fontaine

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

— Shakti Gawain

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

— Pamela Frankau

“Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system. There was no known cure.”

— Mitch Albom

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure…

— Anonymous

Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,…

— William Shakespeare

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good…

— William Dampier

Ill watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.

— Terrell Owens

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be…

— James Anthony Froude

If you're on the other side from me, you're not simply wrong or ill-informed or mistaken. We don't share the same country,…

— Mark Shields

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three…

— Warren Christopher

My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano'…

— Nick Park

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults…

— William Shakespeare

In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of…

— Gautama Buddha

I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill,…

— Steve Maraboli

Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say,…

— Maya Angelou

Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves…

— Paulo Coelho

Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of…

— Hanif Kureishi

Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches…

— Epictetus

The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because…

— Russell Simmons

As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may…

— Vernon Lee

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have…

— Marcus Aurelius

Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the…

— Pope Paul VI

Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give…

— Henry Watson Fowler

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

— Ravi Shankar

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

— William Shakespeare

Whenever we are ill, we need to search our hearts to see what we need to forgive.

— Louise Hay

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

— Abraham Lincoln

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

— John Webster

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

— George Herbert

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

— Annie Dillard

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

— Diana Wynne Jones