Spoils Quotes


We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything though.

Life is gamble It's harsh and painful most of the time and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron

No praying it spoils business.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

I think that money spoils most things once it becomes the primary motivating force.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

You lead with direction and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

A bad manner spoils everything even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything gilds a No sweetens a truth and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind.

I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.

economy spoils pleasure

Knowledge often spoils devotion.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Travel spoils you for regular life.

Rich with the spoils of time.

I hate war for it spoils conversation.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

Drunkenness spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans the man.

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter it usually spoils faster.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Most unfortunately in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame because I went through that.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving we must not call that charity.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

The whole world might know you and acclaim you but someone in the past forever unreachable forever unknowing spoils it all.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.

It takes two to paint. One to paint the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

The military works like government; is financed like government and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government down to the racial-spoils system.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils but cannot wear them plausibly.

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift not as the spoils of some personal war.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory and it retains nothing it takes in.

I'm one of these guys that just spoils the environment. I like ATVs and snowmobiles. I have a motorcycle up there and I like cruising through the hills.

The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine that is anything under a hundredweight.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Luxury is the enemy of observation a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of the soul.

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?