Quotes with ill-fitting

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  • Lord Chesterfield Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Winston Churchill Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Great causes and little men go ill together.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Democritus Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
    Democritus
    Greek scientist, astronomist and philosopher (460 - 380)
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  • William Shakespeare How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Butler I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Samuel Butler I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Anne Perry 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.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Hannah More Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • 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
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Margaret Mead If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Napoleon Hill If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Francis Bacon Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Dryden Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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