A Quote by John Heywood

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

John Heywood

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Good Ill Man

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John Heywood
English - Dramatist
1497 - 1580

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

A. E. Housman

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

Benjamin Franklin

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

Hesiod

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.

James Sharp

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

Leonardo da Vinci

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Jonathan Swift

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Ben Jonson

Every ill man hath his ill day.

George Herbert

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

Aeschylus

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

Patrick Henry

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

Aeschylus

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.