“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.”

“Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.”

Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer

“Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

“Too many kings can ruin an army”

Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

“Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. Nothing would please the terrorists more than if we willingly give up some of our cherished liberties while defending ourselves from their threat.”

Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician

“Too many people’s careers are ruined by praise instead of propelled by criticism.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

“Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.”

Judith Guest Ordinary People

“One ruins the mind with too much writing. — One rusts it by not writing at all.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“And he hated himself and hated her, too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”

Dennis Lehane The Given Day

“Too young for wife, too old for child, but the ripe age for comrade — and such a comrade, for there was a boy's gallantry in her eyes and something of a child's confident fearlessness.”

John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician