| "Never ruin an apology with an excuse." »Kimberly Johnson |
| "A man's ruin lies in his tongue." »Egyptian Proverb |
| "Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind." »John Tillotson |
| "Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin." »Aesop |
| "There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin-- I will die in the last ditch." »William Of Orange |
| "The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. (El Filibusterismo)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion." »Cornelius Tacitus |
| "Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable." »Sophocles |
| "An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect." »Mark Twain |
| "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." »Harry S Truman |
| "The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." »Confucius |
| "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." »Bertrand Russell |
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