Decayed Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does… — Charles Spurgeon
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the… — John Quincy Adams
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon.… — Jane Jacobs
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once… — Eliza R. Snow
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of… — Vilfredo Pareto
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness… — Eric Gill
The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the… — Jeremiah Denton
Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like,… — Anton Oliver
But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't… — Stuart Dybek
I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles. — Thomas Browne
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted… — Khalil Gibran
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers… — Henry David Thoreau
I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on… — John Bachman
Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your mind as you… — Robert Muller
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. — James Joyce
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing… — John Stuart Mill
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. — Norton Juster

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