Ruinous Quotes

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

— B. C. Forbes

“Re-examine what you have been told. And reject any ruinous advice.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

— Margaret Fuller

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

— Edith Wharton

“Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.”

— Margaret Atwood

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

— Jonathan Swift

“There’s more.” “Of course there is,” Brishen said flatly. It had started badly; it turned worse and hinted at becoming ruinous.”

— Grace Draven

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells

“The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when…

— Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib