The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn. — Kenneth Rand Copy Share Image
The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or… — Malcolm Godwin Copy Share Image
If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions. — Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr Copy Share Image
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Dreams are like living things; they can grow, they can suffer disabilities, they can have deficiency diseases and they can also die… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my… — Tom Glavine Copy Share Image
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish… — Clive James 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
“I watched him now, his hands working gingerly, as if he were learning to use them for the first time. He could… — Mitch Albom 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
The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the… — Julie Burchill 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
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
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
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
If I ever move back to Canada, it'll be because I'm terminally ill. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive! — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill. — Christopher Shays Copy Share Image
Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image