Spoil Quotes - Page 12

• Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Christian, Human Nature, Good Nature

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.52

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• Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Food, Illness, Appetite

  A Month in the Country Act IV (transl. Constance Garnett)

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• You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.

  Jules Furthman

  Death, People, Funeral

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• The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

  Bill Vaughan

  New York, Enemy, Politician

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• Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Want, Might

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• Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

  Harry Leon Wilson

  Golf, Games, Too Much

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• Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

  John Locke

  Children, Taught, Killing

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.53

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• Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Children, Buckets, Gasoline

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• If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

  Tom Barrett

  Rain, Picnics, Crops

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• Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Teacher, Taste, Tasks

  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1991). “South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917”, Random House (UK)

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• I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

  Robin Trower

  Track, Albums, Flaws

  "Robin Trower Interview: Living Out of Time". Interview with Brian Holland, guitarinternational.com. November 17, 2010.

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• I like girls, but I prefer having a girlfriend. I like having someone I can spoil.

  Harry Styles

  Girl, Girlfriend, I Can

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• I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.

  Christian Bale

  Jobs, Thinking, Makeup

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

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• Fir : it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Fire, Air, Flames

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 6, c. 15 BC.

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• We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Sports, Real, Heart

  John Bertram Phillips (1964). “Your God is too small”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Family, Mother

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.459

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• I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Hate, War, Conversation

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• There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be;
  There are no hearts like English hearts,
  Such hearts of oak as they be;
  There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be:
  There are no men like Englishmen,
  So tall and bold as they be!
  And these will strike for England,
  And man and maid be free
  To foil and spoil the tyrant
  Beneath the greenwood tree.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Light

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• The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

  Richard Whately

  Hands, Action, Admiration

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.535

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• All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Feet, May, Human Nature

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• So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hours, Pleasure, Enjoy

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• Dont spoil reputation with too speaking.

  Bozorgmehr

  Reputation

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• For me, I was born in the Bronx, and I moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia at a very young age. I had the luxury of going back to New York, visiting my grandmother who would spoil me endlessly, and I could buy whatever was the hot kicks in the summertime of 1990. Being able to shop and then going back to Virginia Beach, where they weren't as fast in regards to fashion, I had that luxury.

  Pusha T

  Beach, Fashion, New York

  Source: www.nicekicks.com

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• I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.

  LeBron James

  Years, Games, Play

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