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Tag Name "Spoils" (72)

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Throw a theory into the fire it only spoils life.
Mikhail Bakunin
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
Immanuel Kant
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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.
John Milton
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Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.
Phil Cousineau
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It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.
John Keats
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Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
Ibn Majah
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
Tom Barrett
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Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.
Terry Pratchett
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Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate.
William George Jordan
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Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.
Jim Davis
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He who acts, spoils he who grasps, lets slip.
Laozi
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No praying, it spoils business.
Thomas Otway
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The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.
Eugene V. Debs
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
Ernest Hemingway
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.
Henry Mintzberg
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
Abigail Van Buren
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
John Maynard Keynes
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The military works like government is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.
Ilana Mercer
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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
Mark Twain
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Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle. -Acheron
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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