“Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“I'm not going to stand by and let him ruin this town without putting up a fight because it means too much to me.”
Dot Brown
“Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you!”
Helen Hunt
“It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.”
Charles de Gaulle
“We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.”
Alfred Jarry
“Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I was never ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, once when I won one”
Voltaire