Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme. — Homer Copy Share Image
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well; — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act. — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
When parents are educated about how not to involve children in their conflicts and co-parent amicably, a lot of the ill effects… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books.… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a… — Mireille Mathieu Copy Share Image
In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Let us meditate until we perceive the Infinite Christ reigning in our own hearts. Let us learn to love those who love… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5… — David Barton Copy Share Image
To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones-… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some of the stuff that I say on 'License to Ill,' I say some real dumb stuff. — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image