Spoil Quotes

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  Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

  Epicurus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stupid, Silly, Hard Work

  "The French revolutionary" by Jason Cowley, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2006.

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Deceiving Others, Romance, World

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• Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Self Esteem, Unique, Curriculum

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• They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Sex

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, People, Limits

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Past, Enjoy, Fretting

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• To the victors belong the spoils.

  Andrew Jackson

  Military, Outlaw, Victor's

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

  Statius

  Haste, Deliberation, Take Time

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• Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

  Epicurus

  Being Happy, Thankful, Hope

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Book, Library

  Samuel Johnson (1818). “A Dictionary Of The English Language; In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals; And Illustrated In Their Different Significations, By Examples From The Best Writers: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar”, p.7

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• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  Orlando Bloom

  Girlfriend, Dating, Hopeless Romantic

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• Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Cooking, Too Much

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• Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Hate, Feelings

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• It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Cheating, Honesty

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 03, 2016

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• Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

  Compton Mackenzie

  Cat, Animal, Giving

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• It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

  Mos Def

  Apples, Grandfather, Movement

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• A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

  Russell Lynes

  Children, Successful, Parenting

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Money, People, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

  Mike Caro

  Games, Speak, Ifs

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• Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

  Connie Brockway

  Pet, Attention, Too Much

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• Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Watches, Orchestra

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