Quotes About Ill

It's a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills.

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

Give to a gracious message a host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.

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.

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

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 . . .

the event's star attraction made no sense at all, but Fisher was just getting warmed up. He claimed that one of his runners had been slipped a drugged Coke that caused him to "collapse and become deathly ill,

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Ah! Lord God in heaven! how ill Thy world is ordered! Thou hast a Son, if what they tell us is true, and yet Thou leavest us to suffer so through our children.

Wife," said the little tailor, "it's ill counting on dead men's shoes.

People are a wonder. They will always surprise you, for both good and ill.

Ideally, our public opinion should be based on established facts. Would we feel less ill at ease if we allowed the whole story to unfold, waiting a beat before becoming judge, jury, and executioner? I suspect yes.

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

It was a rainy Monday afternoon, and nothing about the day so far boded anything but ill for the rest of the working week.

I'm... I felt a little ill. You're saying... I'm pregnant? My double threw up his arms. Finally, he gets it. In years and years and years of experience as a wizard, I'd dealt with concepts, formulae, and mental models that ranged from bizarre to downright insanity-inducing. None of them had, in any way whatsoever, ever prepared my head to wrap around this. At all. Ever.

There is not a reactionary, however extreme, who dares speak ill of the god People. It took an eccentric like Nietzsche to dare such a thing, and it makes him look like the exception that proves the rule.

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

such a God as the theologians would have us pray to—a God who in a world of suffering aids some but not others—cannot contain the mercy ascribed to him. Therefore, I say: such God as we pray to does not exist. And to this I add: there is no divine intervention. There is no divine judge. So we must supply for ourselves notions of good and ill. This is the purview and millstone of the philosophe.

Have you not wondered at the coincidences and chances in your life? Have you not felt that there were great forces at work about you – forces for good and for great ill? Have you not felt the purpose in your life burning?

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.