Ruinous Quotes

39 quotes by 35 authors

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. — James Gould Cozzens
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease. — B. C. Forbes
There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered… — Alexander Hamilton
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property… — Benjamin Disraeli
I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of… — Charles Alexandre de Calonne
It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one… — Thomas A. Edison
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, 'He is… — J C Ryle
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the… — Thomas A. Edison
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act… — Thomas Sowell
Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development. — Alexey Suetin
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the… — Tryon Edwards
...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be… — John Cassian
But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous… — Friedrich Engels
A label is a soul-tattoo that is ingrained deep in our hearts, so much so that it determines how we see ourselves, And how we… — Derwin L. Gray
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day… — Edith Wharton
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick,… — Waverley Root
There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap,â€” You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat....… — James Russell Lowell
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent. — Emile M. Cioran

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