Ill Quotes

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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better. — William Penn
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. — Thomas Tusser
Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. — Thomas Tusser
Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. — John Dryden
Ill fortune seldom comes alone. — John Dryden
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. — John Dryden
I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my… — Edvard Munch
Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile. — Edwin Arnold
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal… — Alexander Pope
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one… — Epictetus
Satirists do expose their own ill nature. — Isaac Watts
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well. — Hector Hugh Munro
It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering… — John A. Macdonald
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But… — David Hume
See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love. — Sathya Sai Baba
When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is… — Augustus William Hare
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it… — Anthony Trollope
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well. — John Tillotson
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its… — F L Lucas
Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof;… — Robert Emmet
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson
There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am… — Christina Aguilera
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart,… — Walter J. Phillips

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