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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you. -- Thomas Pynchon
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. -- Herman Melville
The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing." -- Mark Webber
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. -- Al Smith
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. -- Alexander Hamilton
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. -- C. S. Lewis
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of. -- William Shakespeare
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. -- Giacomo Leopardi
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. -- Carl Jung
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother. -- Marie Antoinette
I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world. -- Adam Levine
This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills. -- David Perlmutter
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. -- Epicurus
Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. -- John W. Gardner
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. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. -- Larry McMurtry
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. -- Viola Davis
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. -- Ice Cube
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. -- Audrey Hepburn
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. -- Lydia M. Child
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. -- Moliere
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. -- Homer
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. -- Salman Rushdie
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. -- Aeschylus
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. -- Ray Stannard Baker
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. -- Ernestine Rose
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock. -- Frans de Waal
Conceal thy domestic ills. -- Thales
There are no incurable ills. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Desperate ills need desperate remedies. -- Agatha Christie
Humor is an antidote to all ills -- Patch Adams
With ills unending strives the putter off. -- Epictetus
He who sings frightens away his ills. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. -- Catherine Ponder
A thousand ills require a thousand cures. -- Ovid
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty. -- Kenneth Arrow
Old age is the harbor of all ills. -- Wilfred Bion
Death cures all ills. Well, most of them. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills -- Sophocles
Ink is the great cure for all human ills. -- C. S. Lewis
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. -- Jonathan Edwards
Think of the ills from which you are exempt. -- Joseph Joubert
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. -- Sophocles
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long. -- Publilius Syrus
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills. -- Leo Tolstoy
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded! -- Juvenal
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills -- Amiri Baraka
I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. -- Publilius Syrus
A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself. -- Joseph Addison
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar. -- Livy
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. -- Tony Kushner
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. -- George McGovern
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. -- Alexander Hamilton
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood. -- Moliere
Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. -- Samuel Johnson
To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong. -- Lucan
Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. -- Lord Byron
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. -- Seneca the Younger
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills. -- Aeschylus
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills. -- Richard J. Needham
It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. -- Samuel Johnson
A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills. -- Blanche Willis Howard
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills. -- Francois Fenelon
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. -- Abraham Cowley
It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them. -- Ovid
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared. -- Joseph Joubert
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another. -- Ovid
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many. -- P. Chidambaram
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. -- Marcel Proust
Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. -- Bryan Procter
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake... -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. -- Robert Burns
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. -- Eric Hoffer
Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain. -- William Goffe
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. -- Russell Simmons
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. -- Oliver Goldsmith
When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills. -- Sue Grafton
We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills. -- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. -- Wendell Phillips
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution. -- William Jennings Bryan
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity. -- Helen Keller
Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them? -- Voltaire
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it. -- Antiphanes
Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman. -- Richard Yates
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life. -- William Cowper
All the social ills thatlaw presumes to correct exist because people are not free tolearn and grow. -- Jeremy Locke
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills. -- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority. -- Albert Meltzer
The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself. -- Simone Weil
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear. -- Lucretius
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear. -- Lucretius
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. -- Herman Daly
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them. -- Ben Hecht
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. -- Herman Daly
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me. -- Sandra Cisneros
There is no cure for the ills of the world except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Joseph Fielding Smith
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. -- Homer
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. -- Emma Goldman
True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") -- Gertrude Atherton
What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills? -- W.S. Gilbert
I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs. -- Barbara Woodhouse
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more. -- Edward Abbey
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease. -- Edmund Waller
Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. -- Henry Miller

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