These spoil quotes will inspire you. Spoil, to have a bad effect on (something) or diminish or destroy the value or quality of.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging spoil quotes, spoil sayings, and spoil proverbs.
Best Spoil Quotes
- “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
- “You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.” ~ Dale Earnhardt
- “It’s silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.” ~ Arsene Wenger
- “They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
- “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
- “To the victors belong the spoils.” ~ Andrew Jackson
- “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
- “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
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.” ~ Epicurus
- “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
- “Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.” ~ Laozi
- “If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.” ~ Mike Caro
- “Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.” ~ Fran Lebowitz
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“It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.” ~ Orlando Bloom , Spoil quotes your girl
- “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
- “There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.” ~ Russell Lynes
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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
- “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
- “Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.” ~ Statius
- “Watch me closely – only one can spoil it.” ~ Eugene Ormandy
- “The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.” ~ George Herbert
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“One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.” ~ Eugene Delacroix
- “We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.” ~ Leszek Kolakowski
- “Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin , Life spoil quotes
- “The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.” ~ Daniel Gilbert
- “May we never let the things we can’t have or don’t have or shouldn’t have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.” ~ Richard L. Evans
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“What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith’s pure shrine.” ~ Felicia Hemans
- “Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.” ~ Phil Cousineau
- “A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer’s agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar’s companion, the constable’s trouble, his wife’s woe, his children’s sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.” ~ Thomas Adams
- “Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.” ~ Pope John XXIII
- “You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.” ~ Aesop
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“I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.” ~ Ron Reagan
- “From an over-arching point-of-view, in war there is heroism on both sides. Obviously, the victor gets the spoils, the victor gets to write history, but there’s heroism and compassion on both sides, and to me that’s very important.” ~ Russell Crowe
- “Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.” ~ Laozi
- “All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.” ~ William Penn
- “When I really love a movie, I don’t want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.” ~ Roman Polanski
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“I would never judge someone’s intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.” ~ Alanis Morissette
- “The rotten apple spoils his companion.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “We’re smitten with technology. And we’re afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it’s time to talk.” ~ Sherry Turkle
- “My husband is like, “Oh, thank God we didn’t have a boy, because there’s this train set that I’ve always wanted, and these Star Wars spaceships . . .” They say, “Don’t spoil your kids,” but it’s one thing spoiling your kids, it’s another thing spoiling yourself.” ~ Milla Jovovich , Spoil quotes yourself
- “Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that, I tell myself that lying down to an afternoon nap that goes on and on through eternity is not something to be concerned about. What spoils this pleasant fancy is the recollection that when people are dead they don’t read books. This I find unbearable.” ~ William Maxwell
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“Just as iron rusts from disuse… even so does inaction spoil the intellect.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice…if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.” ~ William L. Marcy
- “But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne’er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.” ~ Thomas Gray
- “Rich with the spoils of time.” ~ Thomas Gray
- “Don’t spoil a good story by telling the truth.” ~ Isabella Stewart Gardner
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“Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.” ~ Baal Shem Tov
- “I mean, you could lie here day after day, if you wanted to, and think about nothing but waterbugs. Not chase waterbugs, mind you, just think about them. You could spend your whole day, every day, just wondering and pondering about waterbugs, and talking to others about waterbugs . . . and before you realized it, you’d be old. One day you’d realize that you’d never actually seen a waterbug . . . but by then you wouldn’t want to, because it would spoil all your beautiful ideas.” ~ Tad Williams
- “We drink [to] one another’s health and spoil our own.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
- “Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.” ~ Jean Cocteau
- “Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence.” ~ Stephen Jay Gould
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“If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.” ~ Dante Alighieri
- “I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience… How would they know?” ~ Marvin Minsky
- “The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands – we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.” ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.” ~ L. Ron Hubbard
- “Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils’ taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.” ~ Ernest Shackleton
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“Magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it” ~ Charles Bukowski
- “I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “Don’t spoil reputation with too speaking.” ~ Bozorgmehr
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“So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.” ~ Ivan Turgenev
- “The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.” ~ Richard Whately
