quotes about Spoil
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
-- Ann BrasharesSource : Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”
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Travel spoils you for regular life.
-- Bill BarichSource : Bill Barich (2015). “Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.
-- Carlo CollodiSource : Carlo Collodi (1916). “Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet”
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The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
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I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
-- David Gilmour -
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
-- Elihu Root -
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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones
-- Finn Juhl -
Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.
-- François LelordSource : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.104, Gallic Books
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That question is too good to spoil with an answer.
-- Harry MulischSource : Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.
-- Harry Styles -
Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
-- Ibn Majah -
Do not spoil the wonder with haste!
-- J. R. R. TolkienSource : "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".
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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
-- John Cleese -
Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
-- John Selden -
To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.
-- Patrick WhiteSource : Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.137, Random House
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May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
-- Richard L. EvansSource : Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”
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The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.
-- T. D. Jakes -
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Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
-- Thomas HarrisSource : Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, Macmillan
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My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.
-- Trevor Phillips -
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
-- William L. Marcy -
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It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.
-- William Merritt Chase -
Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.
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Knowledge often spoils devotion.
-- Kate HorsleySource : Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.31, Shambhala Publications
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