Success Spoil Rock

Famous quotes containing the words success spoil, success, spoil and/or rock:

    “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. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

    “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
    —Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

    “Love is a boy, by poets styled,
    Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

    “What a long strange trip it’s been.”
    —Robert Hunter, U.S. rock lyricist. “Truckin’,” on the Grateful Dead album American Beauty (1971)