Quotes About Spoils

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Voltaire rubbed salt into these wounds by denouncing war as the "great illusion." "The victorious nation never profits from the spoils of the conquered; it pays for everything," he said. "It suffers as much when its armies are successful as when they are defeated. Whoever wins, humanity loses.

Some kind of internecine conflict, over the spoils.

Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things. He had not started this conversation, and it was not his fault that they were now talking about Grey Owl. He sounded rather a nice man to Bertie. Any why should he not dress up in feathers and live in the forests if that was what he wanted to do? It was typical of his mother to try to spoil Grey Owl's fun.

the victor belongs to the spoils

Înving?torii aparÈ›in pr?zii.

Allah warns the Muslims not to consider booty won at Badr to belong to anyone but Muhammad:

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Whether ye rise for the sake of a creed, Or riot in hope of spoil, Equally will I punish the deed, Equally check the broil; No wise permitting injustice at all From whatever doctrine it springs— But—whether ye follow Priapus or Paul, I care for none of these things." Gallio's Song

News spoils quick, friend, like milk.' 'I say it gets better if carefully kept, like wine.' 'I'm glad you like the vintage, but I ain't buying yesterday's news.

The innocent suffered while evil thrived, and to the victors went the spoils.

Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even spoils systems are preferable because levels of tolerance are lower and the corrupt can be thrown out periodically. Entrenched bureaucracy seldom can be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military join hands!

Somewhere in retirement, Haywood Hansell saw that announcement in the newspaper, and I'm sure he wondered why he didn't get an award as well for the effort he put toward fighting a war with as few civilian casualties as possible. But we don't give prizes to people who fail at their given tasks, no matter how noble their intentions, do we? To the victor go the spoils.

Too much success spoils success.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings.

Thus says the fool: Association with men spoils the character, especially when one has none.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Caesar tarried in Egypt, Taking in all the spoils, The Lighthouse, the Library, Queen Cleopatra and Her many-perfumed oils.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.

You're a demon. I thought your motto was 'spoils to the victor.' (Aimee) No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce.' (Xedrix)

As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labour fix a property in: whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others.

By George Eliot   Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul:   There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires   That trample on the dead to seize their spoil,   Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible   As exhalations laden with slow death,   And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys   Breathes pallid pestilence.