Ill Quotes

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

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.

I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

Buying a used rental car is kind of like going to a house of ill repute looking for a wife. Anything that's been driven that hard by that many people, you really don't want to put your key in it.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.

Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

What I think is critically important is that there are lots of studies on how prayer effects people that are ill, lots of studies, and I know in my life my prayers have been answered.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

When people's ill, they come to I, I Physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to I? I lets 'em.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

Ill wéede growth fast.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

The things that make us human often make us ill.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

The sight of a certain depressed-to-the-max head of seaweed has made me quite ill.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.

We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.