Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than… — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
Romans says the creation was 'subjected to frustration, in hope that it will be liberated from its bondage to decay.' In hope!… — Howard A Snyder Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound 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
How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk 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
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his… — Samuel Johnson 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
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
