One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.
You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.
Rich with the spoils of time.
Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.
All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.
Knowledge often spoils devotion.
Roque. . . lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.
Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.
I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils. "
Rich with the spoils of nature.
Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
No praying, it spoils business.
We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen.
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.
Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.
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.
Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
