I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“Change your environment and if the need be, change your company because it goes a long way to create another version for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no… — Carmen Laforet Copy Share Image
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and… — Horace Copy Share Image
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances];… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet… — Isaac McLellan Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Where is the hope? I meet millions who tell me that they feel demoralized by the decay around us. Where is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“Grace in a decay is like a man pulled off his legs by sickness; if some means be not used to recover… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Growth everywhere neutralizes decay. So long as we keep growing, renewing the mind, constantly reaching out for the new and progressive, the… — Orison Swett Marden 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
[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet:… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. Whats wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and… — William S. Burroughs 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
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
![“...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.” quote by Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/059/jack-kerouac-182_age_the-photographer-can-be-considered-a-kin_2386879.jpg)
![“And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another, solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are…” quote by Humphry Davy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a3/humphry-davy-13342_animal_and-by-the-influence-of-heat-light-and-e_2357578.jpg)
![“[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.” quote by Newt Gingrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/645/newt-gingrich-792_ability_mitt-romney-is-a-massachusetts-moderate_510631.jpg)
