Quotes of Ill - somelinesforyou

“ If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. ”

- Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

“ To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. ”

- Bion

“ Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said 'I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished.' Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, 'I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell… ”

- Zell Miller

“ 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. ”

- Malaclypse the Younger

“ They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

“ It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. ”

- Epictetus

“ Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh

“ It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. ”

- Edmund Spenser

“ The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied. ”

- Sophocles

“ It's an ill wind that blows when you leave the hairdresser. ”

- Phyllis Diller

“ Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is! ”

- Catullus

“ Do not speak ill of the dead. ”

- The Seven Sages

“ Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. ”

- Sophocles
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