ills Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about ills.
“Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.”
- John McCarthy
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
- C. S. Lewis
“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”
- Moliere
“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”
- Moliere
“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
- P. J. O'Rourke
“When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.”
- Albert Claude
“If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?”
- Maeve Binchy
“Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enought to feel misery.”
- Coleridge, Samuel T.
“Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.”
- Southey, Robert
“Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.”
- Syrus, Publilius