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
You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan. — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I’m not dead yet. It’s all good. (Omari) Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell 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
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin. — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image