48 Ruins Quotes for You to Enjoy

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Richard Burton

Life Friendship True Friendship New Life Walls Ruins Embraces Object Gives Animation True New Supports Like False Ivy Decay

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity. Olivia Wilde

Insecurity Think Relationships Ruins Most Causes Fights

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. George Washington

Liberty Power Ruins Easily Arbitrary Arbitrary Power Abuse Most Established

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist. Kendrick Lamar

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. Oscar Wilde

Man Marriage Cigarettes Ruins More How Demoralizing Expensive Far

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform. Patrick Henry

Success Freedom Me You People Remember Tyranny Final Virtue Ruins Possessing Destroyed Recollect Spirit Fearful More Small Instance Share Arms Without Makes None Than Reform Any Established Where Public Among British

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. Franz Kafka

Life Needs Fate Down Despair Other Ruins Alive Sees He Over Come Terms His Hand Off Anyone Cannot While Ward Little Note Who Among

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. George Santayana

Time Evil Ruins Total Absolutely Existence Optimism Any Anywhere

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents. Gordon Neufeld

Needs Family Relationship Digital Parents Lose Intimacy Ruins Hunger Kids Significance Attachment Between Genuine Spouses Real Getting Real Thing Them Gaming Even Appetite Thing

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Gustave Flaubert

Love Hope Love Is Plant Everything Ruins Springtime Which Even

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. Hussein of Jordan

Love Great Strange World Tomorrow Beauty Yesterday Sense Every Resort Once Ruins Haunting Jordan Empires Timelessness Inch Last

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. Lord Byron

State Ruins Thousand Thousand Years Scare Lay Hour Years May Form

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. Alfred Jarry

Unless Everything Ruins Way Fine See Only Shall Put Well Buildings Demolish Doing Lot Up Them Succeeded Use

I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins. Bayard Taylor

Old Country Mountains Every Pleasantly Ruins Valleys Entering Eye High Scenery Instead Disappointed Look Most Dull Expected Blue Romantic Lovely Which Land Full Sweetest Uninteresting Bohemia Gratify Thing