Top 28 Ill Gotten Quotes
#1. Impossible things do happen. But only if we make them.
Robin LaFevers
#3. Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty I feel to half the degree I feel it; and yet it is a great pleasure to seize an impression and lock it up in words: you feel as if you had it safe forever.
Wallace Stevens
#4. The Church has an excellent appetite.
She has swallowed whole countries and the question
Has never risen of indigestion.
Only the Church ... can take
Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
Sophocles
#6. Not everyone strives to be fashionable. I don't, and I believe I succeed.
Joseph Epstein
#7. I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages.
Brian Selznick
#8. The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
A.B. Simpson
#9. The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.
Mark Rutte
#10. The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.
Michael Dorris
#12. There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
Juvenal
#14. Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.
Napoleon Hill
#15. The way you get deals done and the way you get good terms, is to have a competitive situation.
Sam Altman
#16. I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.
Susan Fletcher
#17. May your criminal enjoyments vanish as a shadow! may your ill-gotten wealth leave you without a resource; and may you yourself remain alone and deserted, to learn the vanity of these things, which now divert you from better pursuits!
Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles
#18. But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?
John Crowley
#19. The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.
Thomas Lennon
#20. Stories are one of the most powerful ways in which we communicate ideas among ourselves. They are the stuff that brings us together, the things we celebrate, the things we share with one another.
Robert Stephen Parry
#21. Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.
Euripides
#23. When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#24. A lot of people with a lot of ill gotten wealth may think that they have high net worth, but will simply never be worthy of any trust or respect.
Jeroninio Almeida
#25. Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
Miguel De Cervantes
#26. Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
A. W. Tillinghast
#27. I often take ill-gotten gold
So folk won't starve or feel cold
But gold today was rightly won
When you named me your champion.
So learn this lesson well today
My warrant you will never pay
For like arrows, Robins fly free
None shall my master ever be
R.M. ArceJaeger
