Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk
[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… — Newt Gingrich
Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of… — Frederick Lenz
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. — Walter Smith
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of… — Sam Keen
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily… — Bertrand Russell
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space… — Gene Cernan
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its… — John Nelson Darby
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay. — Frank Zappa
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. — Jethro Tull
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays. — Chinua Achebe
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my… — Peter Greenaway
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay... — John Donne
Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a… — Pat Barker
Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever. — Jesse Torrey
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion… — B. H. Liddell Hart
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles
Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect… — Thalassa Cruso
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that… — Paul the Apostle
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion. — Frederick Lenz
Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But… — William Shakespeare
Without death and decay, how could life go on? — John Burroughs
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last,… — John Donne

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