An ill-timed jest has ruined many. [ Proverb ]
The withered frame, the ruined mind.
The wreck by passion left behind,
A shrivelled scroll, a scattered leaf,
Seared by the autumn blast of grief! [ Byron ]
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality. [ Colton ]
Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths. [ Proverb ]
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit. [ Victor Hugo ]
Women are often ruined by their sensitiveness, and saved by their coquetry. [ Mlle. Azais ]
A poor man who aspires to ape the manners and habits of the rich, is sure to be ruined. [ Phaedrus ]
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word, - faith. [ Napoleon I ]
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. [ Burke ]
The soul of a man can by no agency, of men or of devils, be lost and ruined but by his own only. [ Carlyle ]
Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. [ Alice Cary ]
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 ]
Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and should do their duty. [ Leigh Hunt ]
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 ]
More marriages are ruined nowadays by the common sense of the husband than by anything else. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do: therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better. [ Quarles ]