It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a…

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse…

— Washington Irving

“When someone harasses me, I take a look at the situation and ask the question: What motivated them? When I get the answer I…

— steven magee

Success has ruined many a man.

— Benjamin Franklin

“The boy I’d ruined had become the man to save me from my oblivion.”

— A.M. Johnson

That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with…

— Herman Melville

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that…

— George Bernard Shaw

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

— Emile Zola

He that will not reflect is a ruined man.

— Asian Proverb

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse…

— Samuel Johnson

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

— Booth Tarkington

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

— Moliere

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are…

— Richard Whately

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore