#spoil

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. ↗

— Will Rogers

#about #actual #how #know #learn

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites. ↗

— James Stewart

#i #lasted #night #people #playing

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#children #downstairs #football #get #good

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. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#age #bad #beauty #even #everything

I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#came #everything #growing #growing up #i

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. ↗

— Elihu Root

#avowed #desires #forth #ground #nation

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#being ignored #child #children #harshness #ignored

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? ↗

— Tom Barrett

#farmer #our #picnic #rain #saves

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#find #pagan #scratch #spoiled #you

And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchling. *You* are the chrysalis. *You* are the progeny. *You* are the rot that falls from the stars. All of us--you and I and poor, dear Pellinore. Behold the face of the magnificum, child. And despair." Though I was sickened by the sight, I looked. In the bower of the beast at the top of the world, I beheld the face of the magnificum, and I did not turn away. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#john-kearns #magnificum #pellinore-warthrop #spoiler #the-beast