Quotes with ill-fitting

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  • Jean de la Bruyère We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bernard Sanders We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.
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  • Buddha Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Anthony Trollope When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Herman Melville Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen 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.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • William Shakespeare Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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