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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams

Good, Best, Bad

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
Samuel Johnson

Person, Afraid, Speak

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
Donald Rumsfeld

Speak, Walk, Shoes

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne

Good, Happy, Mind

He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Thomas Fuller

Good, Hopes, Fears

Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way.
Heidi Klum

Point, Fair, Born

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Men, Happy, Himself

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
William Hazlitt

Life, Spiritual, Speak

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson

Hate, Enemy, Opinion

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
John Kenneth Galbraith

American, Off, Boredom

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt

Wisdom, Wish, Virtue

Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere

Marriage, Together, Books

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield

Laughter, Manners, Loud

I only get ill when I give up drugs.
Keith Richards

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
Sophocles

Pain, Words, Cure

I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.
Megan Fox

Psychotic, Tap, Mentally

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
Vladimir Lenin

Heart, Important, Lose

Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells

Humor, Health, Cynicism

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

Game, Control, Purpose

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid

Hope, Fear, Minds

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.
Terry Pratchett

Life, Society, Philosophy

The man who does ill must suffer ill.
Aeschylus

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.
E. B. White

Weather, Write, Once

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.
Neil Kinnock

Young, Old, Fall

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
Aeschylus

Hate, Enemy, Suffering

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
Aeschylus

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus

Good, Evil, Dead

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Yourself, Tell, Illness

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
Sargent Shriver

Education, Good, Parents

Ill give you a definite maybe.
Samuel Goldwyn

Give, Maybe, Definite

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