Spoil Quotes - Page 13

• I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

  Britt Ekland

  Father, Thinking, Grandparent

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• One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.

  Scott Adams

  Knowledge, Thinking, Ideas

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• Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Fun, Procrastination, Ambition

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• You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Teaching, Boys

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Race, Misunderstood, Victory

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.476, Modern Library

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• Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

  Russell Baker

  School, Poetry, Poetry Is

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• In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Football, Morning, Children

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• Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Principles, Haste

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  History, Meat, Middle

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.217

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• As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Party, Games, Three

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Michael Cordner (2008). “The School for Scandal and Other Plays”, p.79, Oxford University Press

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• The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Party, Struggle, Class

  "The Socialist Party and the Working Class". Eugene V. Debs' opening speech as Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in Indianapolis, Indiana, www.marxists.org. September 1, 1904.

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• Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

  Marquis de Sade

  Husband, Pregnancy, Clouds

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• I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

  Phil Donahue

  Believe, People, I Believe

  Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”

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• Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

  Terry Goodkind

  Jobs, War, Moving

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.129, Head of Zeus

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• In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

  Murray Bookchin

  Art, Medicine, Goal

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• I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

  Julian Casablancas

  Encouragement, Dad, Kids

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• Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

  Richard Madden

  Tv Shows, Games, Google

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

  Dan Fogelberg

  Education, Pain, Bridges

  Song: Lessons Learned, Album: Nether Lands, 1977

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• My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

  Trevor Phillips

  Brother, Working Together, Together

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• Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Heart, Wrinkles, Youth

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• You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Passion, Land, House

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• Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Brother, Party, Men

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• Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Victory, Desire

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 6.

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• Rich with the spoils of nature.

  Thomas Browne

  Nature, Rich

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.19

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• There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Romance, Sense Of Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.51, BoD – Books on Demand

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