Quotes
Quotes about Ruin
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Who has not marveled at the might of kings When voyaging down the river of dead years? What deeds of death to still an hour of fears, What waste of wealth to gild a moth's frail wings! A Caesar to the breeze his banner flings, An Alexander with his bloody spears, A Herod heedless of his people's tears! And Rome in ruin while Nero laughs and sings: Ye actors of a drama, cruel and cold, Your names are by-words in Love's temple now, Your pomp and glory but a winding-sheet; Then Christ came scorning regal power and gold To wear warm blood-drops on a willing brow, And we, in love, forever kiss His feet.
Feast of Luke the Evangelist Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two: your life preaches all week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words, from God.
That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.
Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!
Despair ruins some, presumption many.
His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess Of glory obscured.
What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before; After deliverance both alike requited, Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.
Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, And me with thee hath ruined.
Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! . . . . O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.
And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a permanent ruin.
For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding.
