Ill Quotes

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

Books and marriage go ill together.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

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.

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

But look, I cleared out all y’all that got in the way/And y’all knew that I was ill, but now my doctor is Dre

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.