It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others,… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. — John Denham Copy Share Image
The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
