Carthage must be destroyed. [ Cato Major ]
A companion of fools shall be destroyed. [ Proverbs xiii. 20 ]
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. [ Churchill ]
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [ Bible ]
The poor man has his corn destroyed by hail every year. [ Proverb ]
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. [ J. G. Holland ]
Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. [ Burns ]
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed. [ Whately ]
I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. [ Goethe ]
Faction and enthusiasm are the instruments by which popular governments are destroyed. [ Ames ]
Often the world discovers a man's moral worth only when its injustice has nearly destroyed him. [ De Finod ]
Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed. [ Ruskin ]
Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it. [ Sir T. Browne ]
Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords. [ Rousseau ]
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation. [ Colton ]
The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty. [ J. G. Holland ]
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]
At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]
It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
[ Albert Barnes ]