Spoil Quotes - Page 11

• Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

  Martial

  Joy, Aviation, Flight

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• I see things in hardcopy that I miss if I only see words on screen. I do get sick of the words, but I like to see everything spread out because I get a sense of scale that is missing from screen. Going over each sentence many, many, many times gives me incredible intimacy with sentences, especially their rhythm. The rhythm and music of words matter a lot to me and it only takes one misplaced word to spoil the music.

  Myriam Gurba

  Giving, Sick, Missing

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• Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Hands, Decision

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• Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base;
  Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence,
  Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh
  When morning shines upon it.

  Joanna Baillie

  Morning, Pride, Shining

  Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.143, Broadview Press

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• Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Delicacy, Spirit, Sin

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• Brandy and water spoils two good things.

  Charles Lamb

  Food, Two, Water

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• Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish.

  Harry Vardon

  Golf, Games, Temptation

  Harry Vardon (2010). “The Complete Golfer”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Dream, Thinking, Idols

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
  [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  May, Affair, Prudence

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• Whence proceeds this weight we lay
  On what detracting people say?
  Their utmost malice cannot make
  Your head, or tooth, or finger ache;
  Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face,
  Or put one feature out of place.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Weight, Shapes

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.629

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• A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Disappointment, Party, Earth

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• The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Men, People

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• Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

  Radhanath Swami

  Karma, Suffering, Your Future

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• A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

  Edward Gibbon

  Vanity, Race, Desire

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.714, Modern Library

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• I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.

  Warren Buffett

  Hero, Years, Games

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• One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dozen, Habit, Bad Habits

  Napoleon Hill, E. Harold Keown (1989). “Succeed and grow rich through persuasion”, Signet

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• The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen.

  Wanda Landowska

  Spring, Dust, May

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• Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ideas, Perfect, Interesting

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• If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Good Humor, Ifs

  Michel de Montaigne (1892*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the time when it spoke to the reader is past. So . . . I'm cautious about rereading favorite books. I hate to spoil the good feelings they created. Keeping the good feelings is more important than rereading the book. Moving on is a good thing.

  Carl Deuker

  Hate, Stupid, Moving

  Source: www.sjboysread.org

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• The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mother, Kindness, Heart

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• Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.

  Paul Theroux

  Knowing, Luxury, Feelings

  Paul Theroux (2012). “The Lower River”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Self, Suits

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3669, Delphi Classics

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• The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

  Evan Esar

  Stories, Way, Facts

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• People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk.

  Veronica Rossi

  Mean, People, Milk

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