A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.
King George V

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?
George Smathers

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.
Richard Parks Bland

As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities.
John Walters

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Tacitus

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Hesiod

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
Adam Rickitt

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
Garrett Hardin

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
Samuel Hopkins

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.
Georges Sorel

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Leopold Von Ranke

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
George Steinbrenner

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.
Darrell Royal

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.
Riccardo Muti