Ruin Quotes
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He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.
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Too many kings can ruin an army.
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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.
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When I told (my wife) Pat (that I was coming back), she said you're going to ruin your good name. After the first year, we're halfway there.
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects.
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Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.
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And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
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Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it - that's how liars are.
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Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
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The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.
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There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
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Consider that the devil doesn’t sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
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But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
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One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.
