The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it. — David Pogue Copy Share Image
The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair. — Eric Felten Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“religious house called Campsie, the ruins of which still occupy a striking situation on the Tay. It” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great… — Austen Henry Layard Copy Share Image
Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home… — Ruth Wisse Copy Share Image
“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“When the team excavated, they uncovered the shattered ruins of a fortress, over fifteen centuries old, with massive walls and eight towers,… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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