Best wish & ill Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.”

People May Body Action House Wish Understood Independent Ill Valuable Branches Opposition Considering Legislation Deliberate Preventing Hasty

Author:John A. Macdonald

“Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.”

Needs May Light Earth Lying Night Wish Arms Ill Charm Buried Limbs Good Night Bewitched

Author:Edmund Waller

“I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.”

Ifs Has Beens Wish Ill Stanley

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.”

Ifs Heart Wish Doubt Feet Ill Touching Fragrance Sweetest Herbs Bruises Confessing

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.”

Want Asks Wish Prayer Grace Mercy Ill Deny Grants

Author:James Merrick

“Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.”

Ends Reason Choices Individual Wish Views Patient Ill Meaningful Good Life Hopelessness Culmination Terminally Ill

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.”

Men Wish Enemy Ill Latter Foe Hurtful

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.”

Men Believe Wish Worst Good Things Plant Ill Believe In God Finest

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.”

Ifs Knows Feels May Home House Wish Family Members Ill

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.”

Want Wells Made Spirit Force Wish Goodness Sight Ill Prosperity Vices Envy Malice Meanness Lament Good Nature

Author:Jeremy Collier

“I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.”

Long Wish Grows Waiting Late Summer Spring Ill Faster Impatience Asters Foxgloves

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.”

Knows Should Use Wish Fear Fortune Ill Occasions Denied Using Me

Book:Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54

Source: Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54

“And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.”

World Wells Wish Ill Around The World Underestimate

Author:Jimmy Carter

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.”

Humans Self Suffering Wish Human Beings Concern Profound Ill Torture Sickness Treatment Contempt Mistrust Desolation Wretchedness Indignity Ill Treatment

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.”

Evil Speak Wish Activity Ill

Author:Guru Nanak

“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”

Thinking Wish Virtue Mankind Highest Ill Humankind

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!”

World Children Would Be Wish Ill Monsters Villain Domination Narcissist Only Child Hassle World Domination

Author:John Hodgman

“The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.”

Lying Evil Wish Hurt Principles Hatred Ill Haste Ahimsa Evil Thoughts

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.”

Love Heart Soul Evil Force Wish Ill My Soul Thee Heart Love

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“I have no ill feelings for nobody, I wish everybody the best, and I'm cool with everybody.”

Feelings Wish Ill Ill Feelings

Author:Lil Jon

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