Spoils Quotes

118 quotes by 106 authors

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? — Tom Barrett
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is… — Louisa May Alcott
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. — John Cleese
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know? — Marvin Minsky
I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline. — Ron Reagan
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome,… — William Penn
Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man. — William Penn
To the victors belong the spoils. — Andrew Jackson
The rotten apple spoils his companion. — Benjamin Franklin
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. — Norman Mailer
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness. — Mark Twain
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from… — Al-Ghazali
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius. — Elsa Maxwell
Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for… — Yiyun Li
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned… — Bill Veeck
Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment. — Darrin Patrick
It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of… — John Keats
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy. — Franz Liszt

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