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We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though. -- Ernest Hemingway
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 -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
No praying, it spoils business. -- Thomas Otway
The victor belongs to the spoils. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
To the victors belong the spoils. -- Andrew Jackson
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. -- Russell Baker
I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others. -- Phil Donahue
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. -- George Santayana
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. -- John Cleese
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. -- Ambrose Bierce
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? -- Tom Barrett
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. -- David Gilmour
I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline. -- Ron Reagan
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Norman Mailer
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. -- William Cullen Bryant
Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines. -- Richard Madden
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away. -- Geri Halliwell
You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success. -- Roger Penske
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. -- Baltasar Gracian
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
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. -- Rick Perlstein
I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing. -- Carice van Houten
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. -- Arne Glimcher
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. -- Will Rogers
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. -- Louisa May Alcott
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. -- Louisa May Alcott
After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits - all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic. -- Cilla Black
economy spoils pleasure -- Giacomo Casanova
Knowledge often spoils devotion. -- Kate Horsley
Admiration spoils all from infancy. -- Blaise Pascal
Conceit spoils the finest genius. -- Louisa May Alcott
The rotten apple spoils his companion. -- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. -- Anatole France
Travel spoils you for regular life. -- Bill Barich
Rich with the spoils of time. -- Thomas Gray
Rich with the spoils of nature. -- Thomas Browne
I hate war, for it spoils conversation. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Brandy and water spoils two good things. -- Charles Lamb
Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything. -- Statius
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius. -- Elsa Maxwell
Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness -- Jacqueline Carey
The greater the battle - the greater the spoils. -- T. D. Jakes
Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite. -- Ivan Turgenev
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip. -- Lao Tzu
Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it? -- Thomas Harris
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip. -- Lao Tzu
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy. -- William L. Marcy
One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones. -- Napoleon Hill
Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity. -- Robert A.F. Thurman
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man. -- William Penn
Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life. -- Mikhail Bakunin
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason. -- Immanuel Kant
Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness. -- Mark Twain
Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it. -- Ibn Majah
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. -- Abigail Van Buren
Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. -- Jim Davis
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy. -- Franz Liszt
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman -- Oscar Wilde
Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity. -- Erving Goffman
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. -- Louisa May Alcott
I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils." -- Pope Francis
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.' -- David Harsanyi
Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything. -- Carlo Collodi
Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that. -- Alanis Morissette
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. -- Elihu Root
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. -- James Agate
Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment. -- Darrin Patrick
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing. -- Terry Pratchett
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity. -- Dante Alighieri
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness. -- Gilbert Highet
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know? -- Marvin Minsky
The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. -- Isaac Asimov
The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy -- Bill Vaughan
Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good. -- Jean de La Fontaine
To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory. -- John Milton
It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it. -- William Merritt Chase
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
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. -- Felicia Hemans
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. -- Henry Mintzberg
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils. -- Iain McGilchrist
The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system. -- Ilana Mercer
Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. -- Joanna Baillie
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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. -- Jean Cocteau
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
True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
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. -- William Cullen Bryant
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. -- Leonardo da Vinci
There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth -- Carl Henegan
It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale. -- John Keats
All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
I'm one of these guys that just spoils the environment. I like ATVs and snowmobiles. I have a motorcycle up there, and I like cruising through the hills. -- Tim Allen
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. -- Oscar Wilde
The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight. -- Laurie R. King
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. -- Paul Theroux
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. -- Thomas Gray
We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils. -- Thomas Carlyle
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? -- Dan Fogelberg
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. -- John Maynard Keynes

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