#ruin

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. ↗

— Josh Billings

#expense #good #pay #repair #road

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. ↗

— Josh Billings

#enough #life #life is short #long #man

Politics ruins the character. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#politics #ruins

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#most #reputations #ruined

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#catastrophes #destructive #errors #fatal #great

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. ↗

— Otto Dix

#after #afterwards #along #badly #could

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.' ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#child #clever #confident #crying #enough

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#body #fight #give #go #i

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. ↗

— Edward Bond

#competent #deserts #end #may #new

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#health #lot #mental #mental health #overnight