Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. Spenser.

Ill comes upon war's back. Pr.

Ill-doers are ill thinkers. Pr.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, / 40 Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

Ill fortune never crushes that man whom good fortune deceived not. Ben Jonson.

Ill got, ill spent. Pr.

Ill-gotten wealth seldom descends to the third generation. Pr.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, / As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. Dryden.

Ill hearing mak's ill rehearsing. Sc. Pr. 45

Ill-humour is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves. Goethe.