Ruin Quotes - page 3

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. (Bertrand Russell)
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. View quote
Rita Rudner
No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him. View quote
Ihara Saikaku
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history. View quote
Albert Pike
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange. View quote
David Lange
It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice. View quote
African Spir
When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man. View quote
African Spir
A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. View quote
Henry Adams
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation. (Andrew Dickson White)
Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay And if in death still lovely, lovelier there Far lovelier pity swells the tide of love. View quote
Edward Young
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. View quote
Garrett Hardin
The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction. View quote
William Baziotes
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness-she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. View quote
Homer
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. View quote
John Tillotson
How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary. View quote
Thomas Hood
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal. View quote
Sophocles
It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the ruin, if women had the "power"; if political leadership, decision making, government and economic life was in the hands of women. I think reality, the observation material, supports the assumption. View quote
Pentti Linkola
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it. (Leonardo da Vinci)
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken. View quote
Charles Bukowski
The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler. View quote
William Joyce
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake. View quote
Augustine of Hippo