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  • Conceit spoils the finest genius.

    Life   Conceited   Genius  
    1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.
  • I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

    Hate   Kissing   Approach  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.

    Woods   Able   Rage  
    George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.371
  • Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

    Men   Luxury   Too Late  
    George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1782). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.486
  • It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."

    Workout   Crazy   Sleep  
    "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.
  • Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

  • I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

    Source: museemagazine.com
  • I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

    Desire   Done   Voodoo  
    "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.
  • Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.

    Source: www.worldreligionnews.com
  • Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

    Writing   Zest   Giving  
    Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation
  • If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

    Games   Speak   Spoil  
  • Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

    Running   Fun   Advice  
  • I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

    Interview with Scott Bevan, www.radioaustralia.net.au. February 28, 2012.
  • If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

    Dante Alighieri (1879). “The 'De Monarchia' of Dante”
  • Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

  • A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

    Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.472, OUP Oxford
  • A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

    Birthday   Justice   Age  
    Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.8, Shambhala Publications
  • Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

    Cat   Animal   Giving  
  • Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

  • 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.

    Hate   Stupid   Moving  
    Source: www.sjboysread.org
  • 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.

    Play   Want   Might  
  • To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

    War   Home   Men  
    John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.504
  • All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

    Men   Drunk   Mad  
    Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.28, Courier Corporation
  • A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.32, VM eBooks
  • The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.356, Best Books on
  • Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

    Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.266, Penguin
  • On a beautiful day like this it would be best to stay in bed so you wouldn't get up and spoil it!

  • The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

    Past   Forever   World  
    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.87, Bantam
  • God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.

    Time   Strong   Heart  
    J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.89
  • 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.

    Feet   May   Human Nature  
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