Quotation Explorer - 'Ills'

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. - Cicero
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. - Aeschylus
I believe in solving social ills with business skills. - Richie Norton
This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves. - Amish Tripathi
A moralist will be unsuccessful in trying to displace his love of the world by reviewing the ills of the world. Misplaced affections need to be replaced by the far greater power of the affection of the Gospel. - Thomas Chulmers
The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people. - Joseph B. Wirthlin
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied. - Sophocles
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops. - Michela Wrong
They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going. - Zelda Fitzgerald
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. - Publilius Syrus
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. - Sophocles
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? - William Shakespeare
We all suffer ills at the hands of others; however, reactions to these injustices differ like night and day. Many seek to punish the world for their suffering, but some work hard to save the world from experiencing similar grief. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Kindness is the greatest medicine that can heal all ills. - Debasish Mridha
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. - Henry Miller
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear. - Titus Lucretius Carus
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more. - Epicurus
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