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| He that does ill hates the light. | 1 |
| He that prepares for ill gives the blow a meeting, and breaks its stroke. | 2 |
| He that would do no ill must do all good or sit still. | 3 |
| He that’s ill to himself will be good to nobody. | 4 |
| He who hath done ill once will do it again. | 5 |
| If well and them cannot, then ill and them can. | 6 |
| If you be not ill, be not ill like. | 7 |
| If you do nae ill, do nae ill like. | 8 |
| If you have done no ill the six days you may play the seventh. | 9 |
| Ill comes on war’s back. | 10 |
| Ill doers are ill thinkers. | 11 |
| Ill getting hot water frae ’neath cauld ice. | 12 |
| Ill in kine, and worse in beeves. | 13 |
| Ill is the eve of well. Italian. | 14 |
| It is ill to take out of the flesh that is bred in the bone. | 15 |
| No ill befalls us but what may be for our good. | 16 |
| He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. Scotch. | 17 |
| One ill calls another. | 18 |
The good are better made by ill,
As odors crushed are sweeter still. Rogers. | 19 |
| There are ills that happen for good. Portuguese. | 20 |
| There is no ill but comes for good. Spanish. | 21 |
| There n’er came ill after gude advisement. | 22 |
| ’Tis a good ill that comes alone. | 23 |
| To favor ill is to injure the good. | 24 |
| We have always sufficient strength to bear the ills of another. | 25 |
| When I did well I heard it never; when I did ill I heard it ever. | 26 |
Who all sense of others’ ills escapes,
Is but a brute at best in human shape. Juvenal. | 27 |
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