Ill Quotes

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

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.