People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.
Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.
Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.
Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.