Spoil Quotes

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

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.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Rich with the spoils of time.

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

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.

economy spoils pleasure

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

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.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

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.

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

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.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

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.

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

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.

I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

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

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

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

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.

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.

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.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

No praying, it spoils business.

Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.

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