Too much cordial will destroy. [ Proverb ]
Lies can destroy, but not create. [ Tupper ]
Neglect alone will destroy wealth. [ Pontanus ]
Surfeits destroy more than the sword. [ J. Fletcher ]
What does not destructive time destroy? [ Horace ]
Life protracted is protracted woe,
Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy,
And shuts up all the passages of joy. [ Johnson ]
Destroy his fib, or sophistry - in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again. [ Pope ]
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity. [ Beecher ]
Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd,
Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd! [ Moore ]
One to destroy is murder by the law.
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name.
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. [ Young ]
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. [ Dryden ]
An hour may destroy what an age was building. [ Proverb ]
Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree;
Love is a present for a mighty king,--
Much less make any one thine enemy.
As guns destroy, so may a little sling. [ George Herbert ]
Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp. [ Proverb ]
Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;
Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear. [ Moore ]
Stupid stoics! you want to change man, and you destroy him! [ Voltaire ]
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. [ Mme. de Stael ]
God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct. [ Aughey ]
To destroy the idea of the immortality of the soul is to add death to death. [ Mme. de Souza ]
The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy. [ William Shakespeare ]
I cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision. [ H. P. Liddon ]
A valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citizen than to destroy a thousand enemies. [ Scipio ]
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. [ Lord Bacon ]
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. [ Sir W. Temple ]
No dynamite will ever be invented that can rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern. [ John Ruskin ]
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead when they are no longer of any use. But flatterers destroy the souls of the living by blinding their eyes. [ Maximus ]
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend
it. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. [ Prof. Drummond ]
Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Hypocrisy of manners, a vice peculiar to modern nations, has contributed more than one thinks to destroy that energy of character which distinguished the nations of antiquity. [ Condorcet ]
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 ]
No one has found out how to soothe with music and sweet symphony those bitter pangs by which death and sad misfortunes destroy families; and yet to assuage such griefs by music were wisdom. [ Euripides ]
The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. [ John Ruskin ]
Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making. [ Sydney Smith ]
A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone. [ Saadi ]
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish them to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture. [ Plutarch ]
There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]
I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky.
Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]