Spoils Quotes

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. (W. Somerset Maugham)
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. View quote
Norman Mailer
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. View quote
Will Rogers
The victor belongs to the spoils. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To the victors belong the spoils. View quote
Andrew Jackson
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know? View quote
Marvin Minsky
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius. View quote
Elsa Maxwell
Fir: it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame. View quote
Vitruvius
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. (James Agate)
Conceit spoils the finest genius. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. View quote
John Cleese
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. View quote
Felicia Hemans
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Rich with the spoils of Nature. View quote
Thomas Browne
But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. View quote
Thomas Gray
A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind. (Baldur von Schirach)
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. View quote
Elihu Root
Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture. View quote
Arne Glimcher