Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss. — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr Copy Share Image
The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he… — Jeremy Silman Copy Share Image
True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and we all… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill — John Milton Copy Share Image
Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility. — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
I always knew it was ill-fated, but he truly believed I would be his bride. I guess I'd never realized that before.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
My God, Donald Trump is unfit! He's ill-tempered, he's unsuited, he is not qualified, he's unsuited to be president. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image