Money is the ruin of many. [ Proverb ]
Going to ruin is silent work. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Honesty is often goaded to ruin. [ Phaedr ]
We come to ruin by permitted things. [ Proverb ]
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. [ John Dryden ]
A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitants, to ruin runs. [ Young ]
Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine - no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight
Shall be thy doom. [ Burns ]
Sure, of qualities demanding praise,
More go to ruin fortunes, than to raise. [ Pope ]
Illusions ruin all those whom they blind. [ E. de Girardin ]
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. [ Wm. Pitt ]
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. [ Hesiod ]
The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control
Stops with the shore. [ Byron ]
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife. [ Michelet ]
Those whom God to ruin has designed.
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. [ Dryden ]
Over the greatest beauty hangs the greatest ruin. [ Proverb ]
The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. [ Hillard ]
Ruin is most fatal when it begins from the bottom. [ Goldsmith ]
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. [ Franklin ]
Passion joined with power., produces thunder and ruin. [ Proverb ]
The cause of our grandeur may become that of our ruin. [ Arnault ]
What's past, and what's to come, is strewed with husks.
And formless ruin of oblivion. [ William Shakespeare ]
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare over creation. [ Young ]
Of all ruins, the ruin of man is the saddest to contemplate. [ T. Gautier ]
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
When a man is set upon his own ruin, it is in vain to reason with him. [ Proverb ]
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength. [ Colton ]
But look for ruin when a coward wins; For fear and cruelty are ever twins. [ Aleyn ]
Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces. [ Seneca ]
One may ruin himself by frankness, but one surely dishonors himself by duplicity. [ Vieillard ]
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. [ Arsene Houssaye ]
There were in him candor and generosity, which, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin. [ Tacitus ]
The cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while. [ Moore ]
He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin who will not do what he can, but is ambitious to do what he cannot. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth? [ Hitopadesa ]
O the things unseen, untold, undreamt of, which like shadows pass hourly over that mysterious world, a mind to ruin struck by grief! [ Mrs. Hemans ]
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. [ Burke ]
It takes an age to build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin. A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it may be reduced to ashes. [ Seneca ]
Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the little great. [ Zimmermann ]
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious, if unmixed, and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. [ Emerson ]
Neglect is enough to ruin a man; a man who is in business need not commit forgery or robbery to ruin himself; he has only to neglect his business, and his ruin is certain. [ A. Barnes ]
When men neglect God, they neglect their own safety; they procure their own ruin; they fly from their own happiness; they pursue their own misery, and make haste to be undone. [ J. Mair ]
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin. [ Lowell ]
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin. and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw. [ South ]
A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by debauchery; but if he keeps within his own dwellings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. [ A. S. Roe ]
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. [ Tupper ]
Laissez faire, the "let alone" principle, is, in all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone, if he lets his fellow-men alone, if he lets his own soul alone. [ John Ruskin ]
It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]