Top 100 Ill Quotes
#1. The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.
Dhul-Nun Al-Misri
#3. Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.
Anton Du Beke
#4. but then who said journalists need to know anything about their subject before spouting their ill-informed opinions to millions?
Dave Goulson
#5. I did my best to pretend it wasn't so ... I didn't have time to be ill.
Now I know you can't run away by ignoring the truth. Truth follows you; it comes in through open windows and drifts under doors.
Alice Hoffman
#6. Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
William Hazlitt
#7. Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.
Rose Macaulay
#8. Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse
Gautama Buddha
#9. Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you.
Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?
Alexandre Dumas
#10. For those who say you're thinking too big ... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that? ... look them in the eyes and say, Ill figure it out.
Eric Schmidt
#11. Ill haunt you,' I tell him. 'But from inside. Every time you cough you'll think of me.
Jenny Downham
#13. It's as if people
normal people
are made of silver. Shiny to start with, but tarnished by time, by ill-treatment. Luca ... Luca is gold. Nothing in the world could ever make him shine less brightly.
Zoe Marriott
#14. I feel ill with emotional indigestion: I don't think I've ever felt for Mo the kind of raw, priapic lust I feel for Ramona, but Ramona is a poisonous bloom - off-limits if I value my life.
Charles Stross
#15. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with't
William Shakespeare
#16. The first thing that happened was that Helen became an invalid - we know now that there was nothing wrong with her, but Livilla had given her the choice of taking to her bed as if she were ill or taking to her bed because she was ill.
Robert Graves
#17. Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.
Van Jones
#18. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Joseph Addison
#20. Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.
Eric Davis
#21. I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.
Edvard Munch
#23. No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!
Edmond Rostand
#24. 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.
Karl Pilkington
#25. It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.
Richard Steele
#26. Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.
Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen
Christopher Hitchens
#29. 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
#30. Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
George Herbert
#33. It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.
John Lithgow
#34. Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.
Denis Leary
#35. My city too turnt up, Ill take a fine for that.
Masai Ujiri
#36. Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.
Kaskade
#37. Suddenly, I feel like a piece of china, ill-placed at the edge of a table, vulnerable to shattering with the slightest bump or misstep.
Jenna Nelson
#38. It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#39. The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill. Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow.
Orison Swett Marden
#40. Don't play," said Hermione at once.
"Say you're ill," said Ron.
"Pretend to break your leg," Hermione suggested.
"Really break your leg," said Ron.
J.K. Rowling
#41. She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but ill sustain the shock of years: However She still possessed some remains of them.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#42. Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
William Shakespeare
#44. 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!
John Armstrong
#46. A narrow winding street, full of offence and stench, with other narrow winding streets diverging, all peopled by rags and nightcaps, and all smelling of rags and nightcaps, and all visible things with a brooding look upon them that looked ill.
Charles Dickens
#47. The surgeons like to bleed a man, to let ill humours out, so that he may face the world anew. Perhaps they should just hand him a quill and let the poisons spill from him whilst he keeps his blood for its intended purpose.
Mark Lawrence
#49. If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning.
Daphne Du Maurier
#50. The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we'll all die.
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
#51. A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean De La Bruyere
#52. I'm not fooled any more by an ill wind and a light that fails.
E.B. White
#53. Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.
Koren Zailckas
#54. When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.
Dada Bhagwan
#55. in the midst of too much incident, Baby Saleem fell ill. As if incapable of assimilating so many goings-on, he closed his eyes and became red and flushed.
Salman Rushdie
#56. I have an odd craving to whisper about those few frightful hours in that ill-rumoured and evilly shadowed seaport of death and blasphemous abnormality.
H.P. Lovecraft
#57. All right,' said Pooley, 'as panic is clearly ill-received hereabouts, what do we do?
Robert Rankin
#58. Get back, get back! ill turn you into a piglet!
ast a bula- no wait. that turns ME into a piglet!!
Margaret Weis
#59. The Lord has given you two hands and a brain and a big world to use them in. Use them well, and you will be provided for; use them ill, and you will want,
Jean Webster
#60. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#61. Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
William Kingdon Clifford
#63. At the time I was only twenty-four. My life was even then gloomy, ill-regulated, and as solitary as that of a savage. I made friends with no one and positively avoided talking, and buried myself more and more in my hole.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#64. Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.
Nikki Cox
#65. It is ill for an heir of heaven to be a great friend with the heirs of hell. It has a bad look when a courtier is too intimate with his king's enemies. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish by all these politicians. Another
Friedrich Nietzsche
#68. It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.
James Surowiecki
#69. Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.
Laini Taylor
#70. Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill.
S.M. Stirling
#72. If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Ellery Adams
#73. I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.
George Best
#74. Compassion is a coat of fur I find particularly ill-fitting.
Ron Currie Jr.
#75. T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Ronald Reagan
#76. We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.
Marc Goodman
#77. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I enter a house in which there are no ash trays.
Lin Yutang
#78. As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .
William A. Dembski
#79. My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.
Tracey Gold
#81. They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon professional strong men, and scarcely looked normal at all. And they talked interminably and loudly. From their bouncing mental health ordinary ill-balanced mortals shrank in alarm.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#82. The families who chose me to take their terminally ill kids on their last hunts in life many times over the years know and love the real Ted Nugent. That they decide I'm good enough to take part in such a spiritual and emotional moment in their lives proves that I am good enough.
Ted Nugent
#83. One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.
Rabindranath Tagore
#84. I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff.
Mark Billingham
#85. A community that doesn't think it needs a library isn't a community for whom a library is irrelevant. It's a community that's ill.
Josh Hanagarne
#86. Except wind stands as it never stood
It is an ill wind turns none to good.
Thomas Tusser
#87. Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and ill at ease in a world of existences, because to exist is an act, not a thing.
Etienne Gilson
#88. There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
Georgette Heyer
#89. What they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them.
Flannery O'Connor
#90. Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
Benjamin Franklin
#91. Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!
Arthur Hugh Clough
#92. America's foundational philosophy is what sets her apart from the troubles and tribulations of the other nations around the globe. If we continue to move away from a biblical foundation, we will find ourselves facing troubles we will be ill equipped to overcome.
Karla Perry
#93. Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
Except the ill of being poor
Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
To catch all feet except their own,
Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
As easily as pick a pocket.
Charles Churchill
#94. It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#95. I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
April Winchell
#96. One of the hardest but most necessary calls on the church of Jesus Christ is to step up to be part of the social support system of the mentally ill.
Steve Bloem
#97. In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"
Alain De Botton
#98. Either you trust a man and give him authority to carry out his treatment or you do not. When it goes well you are happy that you did so. When it goes ill you think, if only . . .
Winston Graham
#99. Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would use it for ill, in that world or this, then it will be upon you to destroy it - though its end means your own life-long exile. - Young Waeglim
Gary D. Schmidt
#100. Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.
Frances Osborne
