Famous Quotes & Sayings

Travis Hafner

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.

Walter Benjamin

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Joseph Addison

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

Emile M. Cioran

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Emile M. Cioran

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

Ovid

Idleness ruins the constitution

Kweisi Mfume

Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin.

Phyllis Diller

Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.

Joss Whedon

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

Garrett Hardin

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Mahatma Gandhi

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Henri Matisse

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

Helena Christensen

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

Chang-Rae Lee

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Aeschylus

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Don DeLillo

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Confucius

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Anne Hutchinson

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

Thomas de Quincey

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

Saadi

Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.

Sophocles

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

Stephen King

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.

Taylor Swift

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

Stephenie Meyer

Edward thought he was going to ruin Bella's life and he made her happy. And that really was everything for him.

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Oscar Wilde

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Christopher Lasch

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

George Washington

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.