Decay Quotes

437 quotes by 341 authors

We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow… — Chief Joseph
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a… — Aldous Huxley
Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some… — Swami Vivekananda
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay. — Tacitus
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion… — Bill Bryson
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place.… — E. O. Wilson
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good… — Joseph Addison
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. — Richard M. Weaver
Wealth accumulates, and men decay. — Oliver Goldsmith
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. — Eric Hoffer
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they… — Edmund Waller
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your… — D. H. Lawrence
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual… — Susan Sontag
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless… — George Washington
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and… — James Monroe
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons… — Samuel Johnson
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. — William Shakespeare
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,… — Victor Hugo

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