“Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
The Mistress. For Hope; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
The Mistress. For Hope; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Never curse an illness; better ask for health.”
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“67. Never had ill workman good tooles.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired…”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Letter to a Young Clergyman (January 9, 1720), on proving Christianity to unbelievers
“You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage.”
Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States
LIFE magazine (2 June 1961)
Context: You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
“2085. He that does you a very ill Turn, will never forgive you.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“The worst illness of our time is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved.”
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
"Princess Diana Charity Work", Biography Online
“It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Of roast mutton served to him at an inn, June 3, 1784, p. 535
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
