Ill

Famous quotes containing the word ill:

“Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here about my heart—but
it is no matter.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)