Ill Quotes

For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

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

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

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.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

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

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

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

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

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.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.