Ill Quotes - Page 29

• Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

  Jane Austen

  Death, Rude, Lovely

  1816 Emma, ch.45. ee Goldsmith 361:47.

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• There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

  Francoise Sagan

  Book, Years, Feelings

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• Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Hypocrite, Want, Next

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• In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5 kindergarten class and declared the nursery rhyme unconstitutional. The court explained that although the word 'God' was not contained in this nursery rhyme, if someone were to hear the rhyme, he might think that it was talking about God - and that would be unconstitutional!

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.

  Sandra Scarr

  Change, Children, Past

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• Ill never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

  Cedric Richmond

  Men, Tragedy, Hurricanes

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• I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill, I'm fresh, look at me, I have money." At some point, when you have an audience for it, there are stories that need to be told.

  Himanshu Suri

  Thinking, Rapper, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.

  Andrew Weil

  Powerful, Simple, Ill Health

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• If Allah wants for a people ill, he gives them debates and takes away from them actions.

  Umar

  People, Giving, Want

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• To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Ill Treatment, Profound

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• After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet Death, Epitaph, Hamlet 2

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [553]

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• I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

  George Etherege

  Heart, Air, Helping

  1688 Letter to Mr Poley, 12 Jan.

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• But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Writing, Winning, Ill Health

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Introduction, Section 4,

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• A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, May, Politics

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• 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

  Men, Faithful, Mistress

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• Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Vices, Virtue

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• It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.

  Cato the Younger

  Thinking, Men, Differences

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Silly, Men

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Selfishness, Want, Sensitive

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• Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Giving, Doe, Heal

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• The absent feel and fear every ill.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Absence, Feels, Absent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1847). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.231

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• Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Stones, Pitcher

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.466

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• Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

  Josh Billings

  Running, Disposition

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• Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Exercise, Numbers

  Michel de Montaigne (1894*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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