The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces. — Henry W. Kendall Copy Share Image
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
We are all part of the life cycle. Like a seed we are born, we sprout, we grow, we mature and decay,… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty. But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
