Spoil Quotes - Page 6

• You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.

  Robert Caro

  Book, Ignorance, Eye

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• I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things.

  Joyce Meyer

  Faithful, Vines, Littles

  "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wish, Age, Pleasure

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author”, p.258

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• Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

  J. B. Priestley

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

  David Byrne

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

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• I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

  Alexander Downer

  Hate, Kissing, Approach

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

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• As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Son, Giving

  Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

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• Up to the age of five, children should be given a lot of love. From the age of five to fifteen they should be brought up under strict discipline especially regarding their study. It is at that time that life's foundation is formed. Love without discipline will only spoil them. Above the age of fifteen children should be given maximum love otherwise they may go astray.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Children, Kids, Would Be

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

  Elihu Root

  Desire, Nations

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

  Billy Crystal

  Kids, Hands, Play

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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

  Gilbert Highet

  Teaching, Effort, Energy

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

  Euripides

  Marriage, Winning, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

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• Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Zest, Giving

  Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Natural, Theism, Science And Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Political, Principles, Fiction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

  David Gilmour

  Interpretation, Listeners, Limitation

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• How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Vanity, Attachment

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.249, Catholic Way Publishing

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• But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

  William Cowper

  Wise, Baby, Kings

  1785 The Task, bk.5,'The Winter Morning Walk', l.187-92.

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• Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

  Randal Marlin

  Revenge, Party, Mean

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.159, Broadview Press

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• 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.

  Ilana Mercer

  Sports, Military, Government

  "The Silent Co-Conspirators In Military Mass Shootings". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. September 22, 2013.

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• I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Dream, Atheist, Men

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• Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.

  Daniel Quinn

  Lying, Sleep, Pills

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “The Holy”, p.258, Steerforth

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• Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate.

  William George Jordan

  Suicide, Real, Character

  William George Jordan (1901). “The kingship of self-control [from Self-control, its kingship and majesty] by W.G. Jordon [sic].”

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• In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

  Leo Szilard

  Jobs, Fun, Ideas

  "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.

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