Quotes with ruined

  • I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
  • The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
  • Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Kin Hubbard A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Edmund Burke Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Lord Burleigh England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
    Lord Burleigh
    English statesman
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  • Voltaire I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Josh Billings Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Benjamin Franklin No nation was ever ruined by trade.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • James Gordon Bennett Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bram Stoker Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Alexander Pope Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Hermann Hesse The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Arthur Murphy The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
    Arthur Murphy
    Irish writer
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