Quotes with spoil

  • One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
  • A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
  • The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
  • They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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  • Epicurus Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Kingsley Amis A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • William Shakespeare Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Marquis de Sade 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
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Eric Hoffer How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bryan Cogman I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • William Ewart Gladstone Man should beware of letting his religion spoil his morality.
    The Life of William Ewart Gladstone II, 185
    William Ewart Gladstone
    British statesman (1809 - 1898)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Butler Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Raymond Chandler They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Thomas Fuller Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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