Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington Copy Share Image
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the… — Thomas Nash Copy Share Image
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay? — Decimius Magnus Ausonius Copy Share Image
“Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Harriet Jones: When they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't smell like a fart, pardon the word, it's like something… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the… — George Matheson Copy Share Image
The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay. — Joseph Jekyll Copy Share Image
I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
