(173 quotes found)
“We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.”
Alfred Jarry
“We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.”
W. H. Auden
“Never let the poor and destitute emigrant stop at New York - it will be his ruin”
Calvin Colton
“Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“I was never ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, once when I won one”
Voltaire
“There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.”
Will Rogers
“Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification”
James Gordon Bennett
“Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.”
Walter Smith
“When I told (my wife) Pat (that I was coming back), she said you're going to ruin your good name. After the first year, we're halfway there.”
Joe Gibbs
“I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.”
John Adams
