Ill Quotes - page 4

753. By doing nothing we learne to do ill. (George Herbert)
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say. View quote
Will Durant
We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
An ill weed grows apace. View quote
George Chapman
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good. View quote
A. E. Housman
He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused...nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination. View quote
Jane Austen
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill. View quote
Jane Austen
It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble. View quote
George Gissing
For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill. (John Calvin)
Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill. View quote
David Blanchflower
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired... View quote
Jonathan Swift
That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far." View quote
Plutarch
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune. View quote
Plutarch
Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing." View quote
Plutarch
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. View quote
Democritus
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. View quote
Thomas More
When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured. View quote
Rumi
Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife. View quote
John Henry Newman
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping-anon-anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone. (William Wordsworth)
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. View quote
John Stuart Mill
I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but nothing in my experience or observation confirms the idea that he is insensitive to publicity. Who does not prefer good to ill report of his work? And if fame - a good public name - is, as Milton said, the "last infirmity of noble mind", it is frequently the first infirmity of a mediocre one. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who see him are doomed to die. The writer heard the Wild Hunt quite distinctly one night in Wales several years ago, but has not suffered any ill effects from it as yet. View quote
Robertson Davies
Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used. View quote
Russell Baker