“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing” MenMayDoneWholeAgeActionWiseGainsHarderIllWhole LifeFoolishApplauseCensure Author:David Hume
“Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.” MenShouldWellsMaySourceGainsIllRuins Book:The Tragedies (Annotated Edition) Source: The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)
“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.” WorldHumansSelfLosesLossGriefThis WorldHumilitySweetRegretSorrowBlessingSkillsWeaknessGainsAdversityGuiltCastsIllBitterTheeDespiseSelf KnowledgeAfflictionHeedDrainedFurnaces Book:Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus
“The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.” Has BeensMightChurchSuccessfulInternetGainsCatholicInstitutionsIllTricksSellingMaking MoneyPhrasesMight Have BeenRipIndulgenceMedievalCatholic ChurchScamsRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Richard Dawkins
“To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.” TroubleTearsGainsFortuneIllMourn Author:Aeschylus
“When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed” MenDoeLyingTurnsWishBedHundredGainsSickIll Author:Alija Izetbegovic