Ill Quotes - Page 26

• Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Generosity, Sometimes, Conquer

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• It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves good.

  Isocrates

  Men, Evil, Use

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• It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

  Louise Colet

  Half

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• From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

  Nancy Mairs

  Class, Two, Different

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• 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

  Lying, Sleep, Eye

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• There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vanity, Skills, Vices

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”

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• Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Real, Men, Worship You

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• Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Hate, Pet, Ugh

  "Five fashion minutes with... Joanne Froggatt". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 19, 2009.

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• It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Ease, Action

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• He that makes his bed ill, lies there.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Bed

  George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”

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• He that marries late, marries ill.

  George Herbert

  Late

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

  George Herbert

  Ells, Inches

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298

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• Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

  George Herbert

  Sticks

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

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• Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

  George Herbert

  May, Way

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.296

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• Never had ill workeman good tooles.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.318

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• Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

  George Herbert

  Taken, Stranger, Fear Of Love

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.331

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• Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past.
  [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

  George Herbert

  Past, Years

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• When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

  Bill Nighy

  Couple, Play, Months

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• I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

  Scott Adkins

  Thinking, Japan, Ideas

  "Interview with Ninja II Shadow of a Tear star Scott Adkins". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. January 3, 2014.

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• For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Greggs bakers, though, Ill say that. The opening of the 1977 Star Wars movie was possibly the only time Ive seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.

  Darren Boyd

  Stars, Block, War

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• I think Ive done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I havent yet done. When I was younger I thought maybe Id reached that peak. But Im 86 now, and if I make it through to next month, Ill be 87. And now I know it can never be perfect, it can never be exactly what it should be, so you got to keep going further, getting better.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, Play, Perfect

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• family relationships have made me so ill!

  Sophia Tolstaya

  Family, Made, Family Relationship

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• It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.

  Mary Elizabeth Clark

  Sports, Selfish, People

  Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

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• Ill be playing a priest in Chavez Cage Of Glory, which is a fight movie.

  Steven Bauer

  Fighting, Cages, Glory

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