Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark… — George Herbert
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like… — Ben Jonson
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we… — Alexander Pope
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. — Oliver Goldsmith
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support. — Richard Whately
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. — Lucretius
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay. — Philip James Bailey
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as… — John Ruskin
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin
I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even… — Vincent Van Gogh
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move. — Mary Daly
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so… — Max Planck
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them,… — Brigham Young
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere… — Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. — Karen Thompson Walker
Yes, [Philadelphia is] horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there was so much… — David
My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way—… — Emily Dickinson
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay. — John Muir
People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term… — Brandon Stanton
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our… — Winston Churchill
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within… — Marcus Aurelius
The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit… — Tryon Edwards
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all… — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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