Ruins Quotations | Page 2

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.