If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.

No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

I know that people's judgments are fast, and in a split second I will ruin it.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

You need to have a life. Have fun. Then ruin it by having a serious relationship

Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Really, Gin, did you have to ruin my suit?” he said. “This was a Fiona Fine original.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

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