“For trust and mistrust, alike ruin men.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 372.
“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.”
No. 1, volume v, p. 286
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
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“Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.”
Wilkie Collins book Man and Wife
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“An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.”
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“To rise by others' fall
I deem a losing gain;
All states with others' ruins built
To ruin run amain.”
Robert Southwell (1561–1595) English Jesuit
Source: Content and Rich, Line 57; p. 59.
“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine:”
Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The Second Part, Chapter 26, p. 140
Leviathan (1651)
“Natural heart’s ivy, Patience masks
Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
" Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray http://www.bartleby.com/122/46.html", lines 6-7 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes