I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence…

It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven…

— Merlin Stone

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get…

— Rufus Wainwright

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves…

— Henry Miller

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

— John Milton

Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to…

— Richard Baxter

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in…

— Milton Friedman

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

— Francis Quarles

I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it.…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the…

— John Milton

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person…

— Jim Rohn

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If…

— Charles Fort

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…

— Joe Dunthorne

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out…

— David Byrne