War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
Rudyard Kipling
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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
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[An ill agreement is better than a good judgment...
GEORGE HERBERT He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him
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With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
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SAMUEL JOHNSON For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation?
THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
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NEIL GAIMAN Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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BOB LEMON I've never known Vern to be ill, ... I doubt if he ever took an aspirin.
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LOUIS CALDERA A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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ERIC HOFFER If you can try to nap where someone's sitting,
Although there is another empty chair,
Then...
HENRY N. BEARD Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
JAMES MONROE The way is an ill neighbour.
GEORGE HERBERT This is an ill-omened year!
TAD WILLIAMS There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.
LORD HALIFAX Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
GEORGE HERBERT It's an ill plan that cannot be changed
LATIN PROVERB Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but onl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but on...
THOMAS CARLYLE And go not nigh to fornication; surely it is an indecency and an evil way.
QURAN I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
SAMUEL BUTLER To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
JEANETTE WINTERSON 'Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust.
UNKNOWN When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill
D.H. LAWRENCE We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
THOMAS FULLER If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor,...
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A. S. BYATT I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl...
SAMUEL BUTLER A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs noth...
JOHN TILLOTSON An ill deede cannot bring honour.
GEORGE HERBERT Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say...
HILARY MANTEL The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me a...
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The peculiarity of ill temper ...
HENRY DRUMMOND A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill
PERICLES Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
GEORGE HERBERT Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
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QURAN Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; t...
PLATO So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place ...
THEODORE ROETHKE A little lett lets an ill workeman.
GEORGE HERBERT An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
GEORGE HERBERT If you know your ill-intentions, I resist your unhealthy-actions.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Alas! An ill fate is on me this day, and all that I do goes amiss!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Men are still men. The despot's wickedness
Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--
Co...
VICTOR HUGO People are interconnected and their health is too. We pay a lot of attention to other risk factors f...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS Better to be blinde, then to see ill.
GEORGE HERBERT Great causes and little men go ill together.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
GEORGE HERBERT It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
GEORGE HERBERT So they went on until, when they met a boy, he slew him. (Musa) said: Have you slain an innocent per...
QURAN I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shuttin...
GABY HOFFMANN And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders
To stain my cousin with. One doth not know
How mu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
PERICLES Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour ...
CHARLES FILLMORE ill treat you like a princess not because you deserve it but because every time i look at you its wh...
PEDRO MAGALHAES We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
LIONEL TRILLING When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
GEORGE HERBERT Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
THOMAS FULLER There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
ANDREW B. LAW It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.
LENA HORNE An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpen...
CHARLES MACKAY The materials that are now being publicly released are simply an effort to 'try' the case that the O...
BARRY SIMON Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
C.S. LEWIS If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and b...
HERMAN HESSE I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an...
IAN WATSON I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day y...
JASPER FFORDE I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT There's some ill planet reigns.
I must be patient till the heavens look
With an aspect more fa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had...
MEISTER ECKHART He who is guilty believes all men speak ill of him
ITALIAN PROVERB Silently shall I endure abuse as the elephant in battle endures the arrow sent from the bow: for the...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You wil...
AESCHYLUS By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.
SHELDON RICHMAN If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa...
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[Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]
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When the oldest colour...
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Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
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RUDYARD KIPLING A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
RUDYARD KIPLING 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
RUDYARD KIPLING Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B...
RUDYARD KIPLING 'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
RUDYARD KIPLING There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.
RUDYARD KIPLING It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ...
RUDYARD KIPLING If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son prais...
RUDYARD KIPLING The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
RUDYARD KIPLING Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
RUDYARD KIPLING What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?
RUDYARD KIPLING Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.
RUDYARD KIPLING Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The ha...
RUDYARD KIPLING There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.
RUDYARD KIPLING And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B...
RUDYARD KIPLING The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
RUDYARD KIPLING Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
RUDYARD KIPLING Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.
RUDYARD KIPLING When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leade...
RUDYARD KIPLING All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.
RUDYARD KIPLING What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)
RUDYARD KIPLING There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu...
RUDYARD KIPLING I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf...
RUDYARD KIPLING Threatened men live long.
RUDYARD KIPLING Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.
RUDYARD KIPLING Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds pu...
RUDYARD KIPLING It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.
RUDYARD KIPLING I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and ...
RUDYARD KIPLING East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
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