Quotes with ill-health

Quotes 81 till 100 of 363.

  • Jean de la Bruyère Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • H.G. Wells Cynicism is humor in ill health.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Marquis de Sade Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Anthony Weiner Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Billy Graham Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ben Nelson 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.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Bennett Miller For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.
    Bennett Miller
    American film director (1966 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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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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  • Angela Merkel From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Burton Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.
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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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  • Anne Wilson Schaef Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Ann Veneman Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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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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  • Ingrid Bergman Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
    Ingrid Bergman
    Swedish actress (1915 - 1982)
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