Ill Quotes - page 3

But have you wine and music still, And statues and a bright-eyed love, And foolish thoughts of good and ill, And prayers to them who sit above? (James Elroy Flecker)
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. View quote
Joaquin Miller
Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it. View quote
John Ruskin
If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled? View quote
Epictetus
Johnson observed that he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world. View quote
G. H. Hardy
But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of. View quote
Morrissey
It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well. View quote
Catherine Doherty
I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. View quote
Seneca
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. (William Saroyan)
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments. View quote
William Penn
This is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won't complain. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. View quote
Frances Burney
I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to. View quote
Nigella Lawson
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. View quote
John Fletcher
[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence. View quote
Georg Brandes
Groundless superstition ill becomes an army; Valour is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. View quote
Silius Italicus
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. (George Herbert)
Fine words dresse ill deedes. View quote
George Herbert
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. View quote
George Herbert
He that makes his bed ill, lies there. View quote
George Herbert
67. Never had ill workman good tooles. View quote
George Herbert