The monuments of mutability. [ Rivarol ]
Milestones on the road of time. [ Chamfort ]
Black-letter record of the ages. [ Diderot ]
Vanity ruins more women than love. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
The legendary tablets of the past. [ Walter Scott ]
I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame. [ Gay ]
If a fool have success it ruins him. [ Proverb ]
Wisdom rises upon the ruins of folly. [ Proverb ]
The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay. [ Homer ]
Modesty ruins all that brings it to court. [ Proverb ]
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. [ Wm. Pitt ]
When wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. [ Thomas Campbell ]
No ruins are so irreparable as those of reputation. [ Proverb ]
It is not love that ruins us; it is the way we make it. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare over creation. [ Young ]
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. [ Joubert ]
Of all ruins, the ruin of man is the saddest to contemplate. [ T. Gautier ]
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? [ La Fontaine ]
The old falls, the time changes, and new life blossoms out of the ruins. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
There are two sorts of ruins: one is the work of time, the other of men. [ Chateaubriand ]
The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured. [ Julia Ward Howe ]
Tully was not so eloquent as thou, thou nameless column with the buried base. [ Byron ]
It is the setting up of a claim to happiness that ruins everything in the world. [ Merck to Goethe ]
Ruins are the broken eggshell of a civilisation which time has hatched and devoured. [ Julia W. Howe ]
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. [ Scorpe Davies ]
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. [ Dryden ]
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
It is a wretched thing to lean on the reputation of others, lest the pillars being withdrawn the roof should fall in ruins. [ Juvenal ]
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but time friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. [ R. Burton ]
O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe! [ Jules Janin ]
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. [ Johnson ]
He has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world, and the glories of a modern one. [ Longfellow ]