John Milton Quotes

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

You can still function as a living ruin.

Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.

Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Success has ruin'd many a man.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.