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Ruin Quotes
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways (Quote by - women, gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one. (Quote by - Pope John)
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. (Quote by - John Webster)
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears, creates. (Quote by - Hannah More)
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
The ruins of himself! now worn away With age, yet still majestic in decay. (Quote by - Homer)
Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, the Thames, or the Zuyder Zee, where now, in the tumult of enjoyment, the heart and the eyes are too slow to take in the multitude of sensations? Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name? (Quote by - Constantin Francois de Chassebeouf de Volney)
Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin. (Quote by - Tacitus)
She may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways (Quote by - Angela Merici)
Red ruin and the breaking-up of all. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. (Quote by - William Pitt)
And rejoicing that he has made his way by ruin. (Quote by - Lucanus)
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one. (Quote by - Voltaire)