Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

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
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

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