Ill Quotes - page 2

As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. (Fidel Castro)
But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Alexander Pope
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Lionel Trilling
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith
Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us.
François de La Rochefoucauld
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill
I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.
Publilius Syrus
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. (Jonathan Swift)
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings.
Vitruvius
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambition powerful source of good and ill.
Edward Young
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Good-night ah no the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
Nathan Deal
Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.
Marilu Henner
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
John Quincy Adams
In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth. (Francis Parkman)
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.
Francis Parkman
There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
W. Somerset Maugham
Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.
José Ortega y Gasset
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord