Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love. — John Bowring Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape,… — Plato 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
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses,… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
I am caged In solitude It haunted me Wont let me go If there is any other way. To heal the pain… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,… — Paul the Apostle 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
If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not… — Kim Paffenroth Copy Share Image
The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been… — Jeff Cooper 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
“As far as he could discover, there were no signs of spring. The decay that covered the surface of the mottled ground… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering… — Sigmund Freud 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
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
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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